Sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternately cranky and kind-a reveille to get off our duffs and start writing now, while we still can.' 'A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write. 'One of the funniest books on writing ever published.' 'A warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps.' Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. 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. '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.

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: Hilarious, helpful, and provocative.' - The New York Times Book Reviewįor 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. Anne Lamott is 'a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps' ( Los Angeles Times). The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An essential volume for generations of writers young and old.

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