
Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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Narrated by:
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Susan Bennett
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By:
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Anne Lamott
About this listen
Bird by Bird is a modern classic - a funny and practical guide to being a writer by the New York Times best-selling author Anne Lamott.
Bird by Bird is 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. Best-selling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wise and immensely helpful, this is the book for all serious writers and writers-to-be.
For a quarter century, more than a million people - scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities - have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father - also a writer - in the iconic passage that gives the book its title:
'Thirty years ago, my older brother, who was 10 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.'
©1994 Anne Lamott (P)2019 Penguin Random House LLCCritic Reviews
"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps." (Los Angeles Times)
"[A] classic of the genre.... The lessons she shares with her students...are refreshing." (Guardian)
"Deftly and honestly explores the mental challenges of being a writer, and Lamott's advice is, simply put, invaluable." (Bustle)
Love it
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Anne speaks directly to Us.
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This is the most wonderful book on writing I have ever read and with so many applicable quotes that actually have an impact on how you think about yourself.
Words are our gift to all that come after us we need to leave these gifts behind if only for our sons and daughters to understand us fully.
I will read this over and over to absorb it like a sponge.
Thank you Ann Lamott.
And thank you Christine Kane for recommending we read more books like this.
What a great way to get lost in life
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The narrator was excellent. You’d swear she wrote these words. I’m going to listen again because there is so much great advice for a would be writer like me.
Brilliant funny and informative
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Good
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Brilliant!
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Life changing
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So many memorable and funny stories
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loved it so much, I listened to it twice
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This book showed me what great writing truly is.
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