Anne Lamott Quotes About Brothers

Quotes about: Brothers

• Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

  Anne Lamott

  Brother, Father, Book

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, Anchor

• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

• For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Brother, Rocks

  "Like a puppy in a Christmas stocking". Interview with Susan Olasky, world.wng.org. September 20, 2003.

• I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.

  Anne Lamott

  Brother, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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