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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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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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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0 有用 raisonneur 2017-10-03 16:51:05
Writing is such a magical thing to do.
1 有用 Ronaldo·Stark 2014-05-08 20:58:16
关于作者自己写作和教授写作课程的故事，副标题说得很好是关于写作和生活的事情。其实写作和生活很多地方是相通的。生活和写作都不应该是一个目的导向的过程，更在于对于自我的一种塑造。
3 有用 时光深处 2019-10-13 11:45:07
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)
2 有用 oh_oliver 2019-12-29 21:41:12
在NYU写作课上读过最棒的书了。每次写作感到沮丧时，都会想起书里那篇shitty first draft
18 有用 sirian 2013-12-21 14:48:47
虽然面向的大概是creative writing，但对于科学搬砖工来说，很多对写作心情和生活的体会也很有帮助/共鸣。在痛苦的写不下去的时候，拿起书来读一段，会慢慢变的有勇气回到桌前继续工作。