Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher and a person in long term recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). Her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Wikipedia
Anne Lamott recorded a Ted Talk about the 12 Truths that she knows for sure, or almost for sure.
- The first and truest thing is that all truth is a paradox. Life is both a precious, unfathomably beautiful gift, and it’s impossible here, on the incarnational side of things.
- Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes.
- There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you’re waiting for an organ.
- Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared, even the people who seem to have it most together.
- Chocolate with 75 percent cacao is not actually a food.
- Every writer you know writes really terrible first drafts, but they keep their butt in the chair.
- Publication and temporary creative successes are something you have to recover from.
- Families are hard, hard, hard, no matter how cherished and astonishing they may also be.
- Food, try to do a little better.
- Grace is spiritual WD-40, or water wings.
- God just means goodness. It’s really not all that scary.
- Wow and yikes. It’s so hard to bear when the few people you cannot live without die.
