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Write for Your Life
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What really matters in life? What truly lasts in our hearts and minds? Where can we find community, history, humanity? In this lyrical new book, the answer is clear: through writing. This is a book for what Quindlen calls "civilians," those who want to use the written word to become more human, more themselves.
Write for Your Life argues that there has never been a more important time to stop and record what we are thinking and feeling. Using examples from past, present, and future--from Anne Frank to Toni Morrison, from love letters written after World War II to journal reflections from nurses and doctors today--Write for Your Life vividly illuminates the ways in which writing connects us to ourselves and to those we cherish. Drawing on her personal experiences not just as a writer but as a mother and daughter, Quindlen makes the case that recording our daily lives in writing is essential.
When we write we not only look, we see; we not only react but reflect. Writing gives you something to hold onto in a changing world. "To write the present," Quindlen says, "is to believe in the future."
Book Details
- Publisher: Random House
- Publish Date: Apr 12nd, 2022
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.30in - 1.20in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780593229835
- Categories: • Writing - Composition• Motivational & Inspirational• Personal Memoirs
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What people are saying
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer’s English and Stet! (the game!) • America's Copy Editor™ • he/him/his #CopyeditingProTip
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Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"Highly recommended for those looking for a means of coming to terms with their lives and the world around them."--Library Journal (starred review)
"Inspirational . . . The author's journalistic eye for story and detail breathes life into her literary philosophies."--Publishers Weekly
Praise for Anna Quindlen
"[Quindlen] is one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life."--The New York Times Book Review
"Thank goodness for Anna Quindlen. [She] is smart. And compassionate. And witty. And wise."--Detroit Free Press
"Anna Quindlen is America's Resident Sane Person. She has what Joyce called the common touch, the ability to speak to many people about what's on their minds before they have the vaguest idea what's on their minds."--The New York Times
"Classic Quindlen, at times witty, at times wise, and always of her time."--The Miami Herald
"Quindlen is an astonishingly graceful writer."--San Francisco Examiner
What people are saying
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer’s English and Stet! (the game!) • America's Copy Editor™ • he/him/his #CopyeditingProTip
Happy onsale day to Anna Quindlen's excellent, thoughtful, helpful Write for Your Life! https://t.co/MsncgDiWU1