(i) “To be in favor of solitude is not to be against community or friendship or love. It’s not that being alone is better, just that without the experience of it we block ourselves from discovering something enormously beneficial, perhaps even vital, to selfhood. Who are you when you are not a friend, a partner,…
Category: extraordinary books on writing
Anne Lamott
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? I don’t think I have ever read anyone writing about self-loathing, disappointment and despair in such a respectful and attentive way as Anne Lamott. It is very easy to identify with Lamott’s narrator,…
extraordinary books on writing – part two
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life First I listened to Word by Word, then to the audiobook version of Bird by Bird, and today I’m reading Bird by Bird on my iPad. Why? Because I got kind of hooked. Because Anne Lamott writes and talks exceedingly well about writing. Because…
extraordinary books on writing – part one
Dani Shapiro: Still Writing, The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write. You might read Still Writing as a memoir, I read it primarily as a book on the craft of writing. I don’t think I have ever before compared any…
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