Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life | Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life | Anne Lamott | Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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	Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Anne Lamott Anchor, 1995 - 239 pages average customer review:based on 302 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

You haven't read it? What are you waiting for?

This book came to me several years ago and recommended from several directions and I was not disappointed. Lamott is disarmingly funny and frank (or, if the frankness is feigned, a superb actress). Her advice is excellent and her warnings dead-on. Her assertion that writing is important in and of itself, regardless of the ultimate use, rings true to this reviewer: I learn about myself as I wrestle with the work. The book is presented as a series of lessons, no doubt arranged much the way Lamott delivers her classes, her points illustrated with questions and answers from and to students. She notes that many of her pupils seem more interested in being published than in doing the work, assuming that there is great reward in the former. When she tells them that few of them are likely to get much ink, and vanishingly few will ever be able to make a living at it, they generally subside briefly, but come right around to "Do I need an agent?" and "Will I get an advance based on an outline?" The personal anecdotes herein are delicious. Her unhidden neuroses reassuring to those of us more inclined to mask those beasties. Wise and witty. Great fun. And so very encouraging that I found myself bouncing back and forth -- reading until I could no longer bear NOT to be writing, then writing until I simply had to get back to the book. If her readers do not consider themselves writers at the outset, I cannot imagine exiting this volume without wondering, "Why not?"

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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Good Morning,
I read about this book in a Readers Digest review so I decided to buy it as a gift for a student that was studying Literature at the Deakin Uni Geelong Australia.
She told me it was inspirational.
Regards

Bob Thompson

Step by Step

the book is more than Excellent, it gives a wonderful tips for writers and for life as well. The concept of bird by bird (step by step) is good for all life elements.

It is outstanding book

Bird by Bird

When I read the first few chapters, I found Anne's chatty, airhead style irritating...but when she got down to brass tacks - the chapters on How To - I found these much more rewarding. Maybe it's the American vs the British/Austrlian way...as I found Natalie Goldberg difficult to get into as well. So much so that I abandoned it for some other time and space. Perhaps a lot of How To Write books concentrate on Getting Started and this is not the mountain I am climbing.

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