Quotes about Inspiration
I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.
— Anne Lamott
If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.
— Anne Lamott
So I sit for a moment and then say a small prayer - please help me get out of the way so I can write what wants to be written.
— Anne Lamott
It may strike you as a small miracle that you have someone in your life, whose taste you admire, who will tell you the truth and help you stay on the straight and narrow, or find your way back to it if you are lost.
— Anne Lamott
Love and goodness and the world's beauty and humanity are the reasons we have hope.
— Anne Lamott
It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born." That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.
— Anne Lamott
Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.
— Anne Lamott
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days—listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold.
— Anne Lamott
Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.
— Anne Lamott
I'm not suggesting that you want to be an author who tells a story in order to teach a moral or deliver a message. If you have a message, as Samuel Goldwyn said, send a telegram.
— Anne Lamott
You wouldn't be a writer if reading hadn't enriched your soul more than other pursuits.
— Anne Lamott
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
— Anne Lamott