Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Audiobook (Free)

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. Tips that starts with the simple words of intelligence passed on from Anne’s father-also a writer-in the iconic passing that gives the publication its title:

“Thirty years back my older sibling, who was ten years old at that time, was trying to get a written report on parrots written that he’d got three months to publish. It was credited the next day. We had been out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at your kitchen table near tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized with the hugeness of the duty ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s make, and said, ‘Bird by bird, friend. Just take it parrot by bird.’”

An essential volume for generations of writers youthful and older, Bird by Bird is a modern classic. This twenty-fifth wedding anniversary edition will continue to spark creative minds for years to come.