Anne Lamott Quotes

After 'Chen Zhen,' I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.

In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I've said this many times: I don't care which hero punches which hero to get the Infinity Jockstrap or whatever. I do care that people find humanity in these stories, and maybe something connects, makes the world a little better for having read it.

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

I always love writing about children.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.