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About Anne Lamott
American novelist and nonfiction writer
Anne Lamott is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. She is known for work that blends fiction with personal and reflective nonfiction, and for a voice that is direct, candid, and observant. Her writing often draws on everyday life, faith, family, addiction, recovery, and the struggles and small consolations of ordinary experience. She has built a large body of quoted material on the site, reflecting the wide reach of her public voice and the clarity of her style.
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- “I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago…”Anne Lamott
- “I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.…”Anne Lamott
- “You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction.…”Anne Lamott
- “This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all,…”Anne Lamott
Parenting: more sayings
- “The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.”Jan Blaustone
- “That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom…”Cynthia Rogers Parks
- “The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible paren…”Bill O'Reilly