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"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps." —Los Angeles Times"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.'"Think you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of the energizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg and will be seduced by Lamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which has little to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy, writer's block and going for broke with each paragraph. Marvelously wise and best of all, great reading. "Superb

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Author

Anne Lamott

Publisher

Anchor Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385480017

Category

reference

Subjects

Reference, Language Learning, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.23 / 5 (56,838 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14