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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An essential volume for generations of writers. 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. Buy a cheap copy of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on. “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. Author of Almost Everything, Help Thanks Wow, Grace (Eventually), Bird by Bird & Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels. 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.

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