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Author Lamott, Anne, author.

Title Bird by bird : some instructions on writing and life / Anne Lamott.

Publication Info. New York : Anchor Books, 1995.
©1994

Item Status

Edition 1st Anchor books edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 238 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1994
Summary Anne Lamott recounts her personal experiences to reveal her writing techniques and how she overcomes obstacles that interfere with the writing flow. She offers concrete suggestions about character, plot, setting, and other topics of interest to writers. She also offers advice about how to navigate through the dark underbelly feelings of self-doubt, inadequacy, and jealousy that are inevitable parts of any writer's experience
For a quarter century, more than a million readers--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 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.'" An essential volume for generations of writers young and old, Bird by Bird is a modern classic. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition will continue to spark creative minds for years to come.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 239).
Access Concurrent user level: 1 user
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2019. MiAaHDL
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Subject Authorship.
Authorship.
Authorship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Handbooks and manuals.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lamott, Anne. Bird by bird. 1st Anchor books edition. New York : Anchor Books, 1995 (DLC) 95010225 (OCoLC)32132867
ISBN 9780307424983 (electronic book)
0307424987 (electronic book)
9780385480017 (paperback)
0385480016 (paperback)
9781439558164 (Paw Prints library binding)
1439558167 (Paw Prints library binding)
Music No. EB00148218 Recorded Books