Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Author(s): Anne Lamott

Writing Craft

'Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It 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 on 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."' Here, for the first time, is a local edition of the bible of writing guides -- a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, a bestelling novelist and memoirist, distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wise, and immensely helpful, this is the book for serious writers and writers-to-be.


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"Superb writing advice... hilarious, helpful and provocative." -- New York Times Book Review. "A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps." -- Los Angeles Times. "A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write... sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternately cranky and kind -- a reveille to get off our duffs and start writing "now," while we still can." -- Seattle Times.

Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

General Fields

  • : 9781921372476
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : 0.29
  • : November 2008
  • : 210mm X mm
  • : Australia
  • : February 2024
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Anne Lamott
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : en
  • : 808/.02
  • : 272
  • : Writing & editing guides