What Anne Lamott has said about Hard Laughter
1 quote · 1 episode · Jul 31, 2026
Anne Lamott, American writer and essayist, author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions and Somehow: Thoughts on Love, has been quoted on Hard Laughter once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on July 31, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Lamott says she wrote her first novel because in 1977 she could find no books about families going through a serious cancer diagnosis.
“So I started writing a book that might be helpful to people in whose family there was somebody with a really significant kind of cancer”
TED Radio Hour: Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott (Jul 31, 2026) · Listen from 8:30
Episodes
Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne LamottTED Radio Hour · Jul 31, 2026 · 50 min
Writer Anne Lamott talks with Manoush Zomorodi about writing, alcoholism and recovery, faith, single motherhood, her son's addiction, death and turning 70.
Anne Lamott on other topics
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