

“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. An essential volume for generations of writers young and old.
