书籍介绍
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.
AI导读
核心看点
- 以“一只鸟接着一只鸟”比喻，拆解写作恐惧，鼓励从微小处着手。
- 提倡“糟糕初稿”概念，对抗完美主义，强调完成比完美更重要。
- 写作不仅是技巧训练，更是培养专注力与感知生活细节的能力。
适合谁读
- 受完美主义困扰、难以动笔的写作初学者及有拖延症的人。
- 从事创意写作、学术写作或任何需要文字输出工作的创作者。
- 寻求通过写作疗愈内心、提升生活感知力与专注力的读者。
读前提醒
- 本书非严谨技法手册，重在心态建设，适合在写作受挫时阅读。
- 作者文风幽默且带私人色彩，部分观点可能带有特权视角，需辩证看待。
- 不必追求一次性读完，可当作案头书，在需要勇气时翻阅特定章节。
读者共识
- 被广泛誉为写作领域的经典指南，对克服写作焦虑有显著疗效。
- 读者普遍认为书中关于“糟糕初稿”和“专注”的建议极具启发性。
- 虽有人觉得部分章节略显矫情或重复，但整体仍被视为治愈系佳作。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "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."
- "假钥匙并不能帮你打开门。你期待出书能带给你的一切几乎都是假的，都是幻影一一就像印在信用卡上的展翅老鹰并不会真的飞上天，只是看起来好像要振翅高飞而已。真相是若你每天坚持不懈地创作音乐，慢慢试着更加努力地练习、聆听杰出音乐家演奏你喜爱的作品，你也会变得更优秀。有时，你坐在书桌前写作，会感到乏味和提不起劲，或许接下来的一整天都处于这种状态，又或许能够慢慢摆脱；但若以为成功的作家不会有乏味和挫败的时刻，不会有强烈感觉到自己如水黾般渺小而紧张、充满不安全感的时刻，那你就错了。他们的确有，但他们也常在写作时感受到巨大的惊奇，并明了这正是自己此生唯一想从事的工作。"
- "要成为一个优秀的作家，你不只得多写，也需要有衷心相信的信念。你不见得一定要具备复杂的道德哲学，但我想作家总会想尝试成为解答的一部分，去了解一点点人生，并把这些心得传下去。即使冷酷实际如萨缪尔·贝克特，他也通过了剧中坐在垃圾桶或将头埋在沙中的疯狂人物，以及他们不断翻出包包里的东西，停下来赞叹每一件物品的生存状态，让我们深入思考并理解人生当中何者为真，哪些才是对我们有帮助的。"
- "Every morning, no matter how late he had been up, my father rose at 5:30, went to his study, wrote for a couple of hours, made us all breakfast, read the paper with my mother, and then went back to work for the rest of the morning. Many years passed before I realized that he did this by choice, for "
- "Writing is about learning to pay attention and to communicate what is going on."
- "There is ecstasy in paying attention."
- "Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world, of the human mind and heart, and can try to capture just that — the details, the nuance, what is. If you start to look around, you will start to see. When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realis"
- "Ripples on the surface of the water— were silver salmon passing under—different from the ripples caused by breezes"
作者简介
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.
用户评论
本来想多了解一下creative writing的魅力，于是就看了这本书，过程很愉悦，看的速度也很快，但是读完之后你会发现道理终究是道理，与其有时间幻想天地人文道德哲理方法，不如喊个外卖然后坐在电脑前面开始敲字
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。
其实算是一本写给写作者的自助书籍，而宽容点看的话，自助书籍也没什么不好... 像Lamott自己说的，她的写作有时候就是送给这世上的他者的礼物；恰好没什么人写过一个挣扎的写作者的赤裸裸的日常内心戏，她就写了。有的章节带着特权的惯性所特有的矫情，有的地方却也能给人带来灵感；也算是给后来人的礼物。 | 第一版是1995年出的 - 大概是因为年代，所以稍稍觉得她语调中即便是算不上white supremacy也起码是tone-deaf的成分没有“那么”不可原谅。
简单有趣，太好的写作书～
"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."
“The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.” 写作本身即是奖赏。（今天打开论文文档了吗？
好在是挺风趣的，但是我真的对这种人生导向型的书很无感
作者很有经验也很爱分享经验，但是全篇谆谆教诲的语气逼人叛逆啊。笼统总结一下就是：写就对了，写不出来很正常，不完美很正常，写写写。有一些生动活泼的小幽默但是奇怪的是最后我划线的句子大部分都是作者引用别人的话，比如priest，说老年人像是冬天的树，说hope是 revolutionary patience。都是让人眼前一亮的表达。但priest不是作家，因为作家需要完整的表达，而完整的作品仅仅有一个spark是不够的，要有层次有场景去安放这些闪亮的瞬间。另外 from Toni Morrison “ the function of freedom is to free someone else” 写作的另一层意义。
选错了，我是需要看怎样组织文章结构，句型语法方面提高的书。这个完全看不下去
想知道一个作家的生活？看这本书
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