Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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"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.'"
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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."
Book Details
- Publisher:
- Vintage
- ISBN:
- 9780385480017
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 256
- Authors:
- Anne Lamott
- Published Date:
- 1995-09-01
- Language:
- English
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Is there a book on the craft of writing that you recommend to poets?
Not really. But the Bird by Bird advice of Anne Lamott is a good way to write a poem. And the sit down in a chair for hours every day and write ("The Getaway Car") technique of Ann Patchett is a decent way to churn out a book of poetry. But answering this question now has me wondering if I only take advice from writers named Anne/Ann...
The book and essay I mention above (Lamott's and Patchett's) both address how we all have writing within us. I'd argue more of us have poems within us than anything else... so help getting them out of our bodies and brains and onto paper is, I think, the greatest service to any artist.