You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Anne Lamott Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: God people hatred self-deception projection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: mystery adventure daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: God people hatred self-deception projection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: mystery adventure daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
