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...
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.
作者简介
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Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an ...
Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. (查看原文)
GOD, it's so beautifully written in an easy-to-read way about the deep topics. Thanks, sister Anne.--10/2019 On my second reading, I found this book is awkwardly written. It's tedious, chattering, and...GOD, it's so beautifully written in an easy-to-read way about the deep topics. Thanks, sister Anne.--10/2019 On my second reading, I found this book is awkwardly written. It's tedious, chattering, and perhaps charged by an unfulfilled novelist dream of the author, thus it becomes neither a how-to book nor a novelette. It's a non-genius struggling.(展开)
书评会在这两周内写完，在此先贴出我的个人阅读笔记，仅供参考： “ With the writer's quivalent of canvas and brush, i wrote a description of what I saw:"i walked to the lip of the water and let the foamy tongue of the rushing liquid lick my toes. A sand crab...
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In Part One, Lamott addresses the daunting task of beginning to write. She talks about how writers should strive to write at the same time every day and urges them to give themselves short, discrete assignments rather than long, complicated ones. She keeps ...
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有多暖心呢？ 举个例子：E.L.Doctorow once said that “writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” 写作就像在黑夜里开车。尽管只能看到头灯照到的范围，但你能这样走完全程...
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I was like one of the bad boys in "Pinocchio" who flock to the island of pleasure and grow donkey ears. I knew my soul was sick and that I needed spiritual advice, and I knew also that this advise shouldn't be terribly sophisticated. So I went to see the pastor of my son's preschool. The pastor is about fifteen. We talked for a while. It turns out he just looks young. I said that I was all over...
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I was like one of the bad boys in "Pinocchio" who flock to the island of pleasure and grow donkey ears. I knew my soul was sick and that I needed spiritual advice, and I knew also that this advise shouldn't be terribly sophisticated. So I went to see the pastor of my son's preschool.
The pastor is about fifteen. We talked for a while. It turns out he just looks young. I said that I was all over the place, up and down, scattered, high, withdrawing, lost and in the midst of it all trying to find some elusive sense of serenity. " The world can't give that serenity" he said" The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts."
" I hate that" I said.
"I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the would can't take it away."
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.
2012-12-04 22:581人喜欢
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. 引自 Perfectionism
拖延难产的写作包袱 I think that something similar happens with our psychic muscles. They cramp around our wounds—the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood, the humiliations suffered in both—to keep us from getting hurt in the same place again, to keep foreign substances out. So those wounds never have a chance to heal. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp....
2018-07-14 09:38
拖延难产的写作包袱
I think that something similar happens with our psychic muscles. They cramp around our wounds—the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood, the humiliations suffered in both—to keep us from getting hurt in the same place again, to keep foreign substances out. So those wounds never have a chance to heal. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don’t even know that the wounds and the cramping, are there, but both limit us. They keep us moving and writing in tight, worried ways. They keep us standing back or backing away from life, keep us from experiencing life in a naked and immediate way. 引自 over all
I think perfectionism is based on the obessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they are doing it.
2014-03-01 14:16
I think perfectionism is based on the obessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they are doing it.
All you can give us is what life is about from your point of view. You are not going to be able to give us the plans to the submarine. Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.
2014-03-01 14:21
All you can give us is what life is about from your point of view. You are not going to be able to give us the plans to the submarine. Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.
Find out what each character cares most about in the world because then you will have discovered what's at stake. Find a way to express this discovery in action, and then let your people set about finding or holding onto or defending whatever it is. Then you can take them from good to bad and back again, or from bad to good, or from lost to found. But something must be at stake or you will have...
2014-03-01 14:24
Find out what each character cares most about in the world because then you will have discovered what's at stake. Find a way to express this discovery in action, and then let your people set about finding or holding onto or defending whatever it is. Then you can take them from good to bad and back again, or from bad to good, or from lost to found. But something must be at stake or you will have no tension and your readers will not turn the pages. Think of a hockey player- there had better be a puck out there on the ice, or he is going be look pretty ridiculous.
拖延难产的写作包袱 I think that something similar happens with our psychic muscles. They cramp around our wounds—the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood, the humiliations suffered in both—to keep us from getting hurt in the same place again, to keep foreign substances out. So those wounds never have a chance to heal. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp....
2018-07-14 09:38
拖延难产的写作包袱
I think that something similar happens with our psychic muscles. They cramp around our wounds—the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood, the humiliations suffered in both—to keep us from getting hurt in the same place again, to keep foreign substances out. So those wounds never have a chance to heal. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don’t even know that the wounds and the cramping, are there, but both limit us. They keep us moving and writing in tight, worried ways. They keep us standing back or backing away from life, keep us from experiencing life in a naked and immediate way. 引自 over all
Every morning, no matter how late he had been up, my father rose at 5:30, went to his study, wrote for a couple of hours, made us all breakfast, read the paper with my mother, and then went back to work for the rest of the morning. Many years passed before I realized that he did this by choice, for a living, and that he was no unemployed or mentally ill. I wanted him to have a regular job where...
2016-03-18 06:30
Every morning, no matter how late he had been up, my father rose at 5:30, went to his study, wrote for a couple of hours, made us all breakfast, read the paper with my mother, and then went back to work for the rest of the morning. Many years passed before I realized that he did this by choice, for a living, and that he was no unemployed or mentally ill. I wanted him to have a regular job where he put on a necktie and went off somewhere with the other fathers and sat in a little office and smoked. But the idea of spending entire days in someone else's office doing someone else's work did not suit my father's soul. I think it would have killed him. He did end up dying rather early, in his mid-fifties, but at least he had lived on his own terms.
...writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around. 引自 Introduction
they've gone from being four tense, slightly conceited,lonely people who wanted to write to one of those weird little families we fashion out of whoever's around us. They're very tender with one another. They all look a lot less slick and cool than they did when they were in my class, because helping each other has made their hearts bigger. A big hearts both clunky and a delicate thing; it does...
2014-03-10 05:22
they've gone from being four tense, slightly conceited,lonely people who wanted to write to one of those weird little families we fashion out of whoever's around us. They're very tender with one another. They all look a lot less slick and cool than they did when they were in my class, because helping each other has made their hearts bigger. A big hearts both clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through. You can see this pulse in them now.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.
0 有用 鱼小勺 2015-06-03
看完这本书，不由得更加同情远子，写作汪挺惨的请大家给他打钱。Listen to ur broccoli.
1 有用 灰_faye 2012-12-08
最大感受是：你得开始写！只要一开始写，后面就不是问题了~
11 有用 Chandelier 2017-04-04
"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
0 有用 raisonneur 2017-10-03
Writing is such a magical thing to do.
2 有用 时光深处 2019-10-13
GOD, it's so beautifully written in an easy-to-read way about the deep topics. Thanks, sister Anne.--10/2019 On my second reading, I found this book is awkwardly written. It's tedious, chattering, and... GOD, it's so beautifully written in an easy-to-read way about the deep topics. Thanks, sister Anne.--10/2019 On my second reading, I found this book is awkwardly written. It's tedious, chattering, and perhaps charged by an unfulfilled novelist dream of the author, thus it becomes neither a how-to book nor a novelette. It's a non-genius struggling. (展开)
0 有用 Th 2021-01-25
很像 Howard Becker 的 tricks of the trade，广受好评但名不副实。作为工具书，作者啰里八嗦又并不机灵，信息密度太低。
0 有用 雪白滴熊 2020-12-11
给人勇气的书
0 有用 gumballer 2020-12-03
Ooooh this is so damn predictable
0 有用 意大利阿姨 2020-11-02
1 有用 bboobb 2020-08-31
本来想多了解一下creative writing的魅力，于是就看了这本书，过程很愉悦，看的速度也很快，但是读完之后你会发现道理终究是道理，与其有时间幻想天地人文道德哲理方法，不如喊个外卖然后坐在电脑前面开始敲字