Bird by Bird
Book by Anne Lamott
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Oct 29, 2026
Stephanie Farrell-MooreHOST
Yeah.
Nellie BryceHOST
Or Bird by Bird.
Nellie BryceHOST
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.
Nellie BryceHOST
Lamott.
Nellie BryceHOST
Sometimes I find that just flicking to a page and I've posted notes through it and reading a little bit is all I need to remind me of the joy of creativity and that actually it isn't always about sitting down to get out the paints or do writer poem.
Stephanie MackHOST
I want to write.
Stephanie MackHOST
I'm like, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott is a great place to start.
Stephanie MackHOST
And then I have my list of craft books.
Stephanie MackHOST
And then, you know, if no one has ever, ever, ever read Christian fiction, I still say Redeeming Love.
Leisa CoffmanGUEST
I said, but the novel thing just gets, you know, really overwhelming.
Leisa CoffmanGUEST
And she says, well, you just got to take it bird by bird.
Leisa CoffmanGUEST
And then she sent me a book called Bird by Bird.
Leisa CoffmanGUEST
Anne Lamott wrote it.
Leisa CoffmanGUEST
And it's about writing stories.
Leisa CoffmanGUEST
tips and writing a novel and bird by bird meaning you just you don't look at it as a whole take it bit by bit so sit down and just start from the beginning how do you want to open you know and to be honest I didn't even have to get past chapter one It resonated so much that I put it down and I remember thinking, I think I could do this.
Leisa CoffmanGUEST
And years ago, I actually started to do it.
Leisa CoffmanGUEST
And then my life just got really hectic with film and other stuff.
Karson BrownGUEST
There's so many incredible books on craft.
Karson BrownGUEST
And I think my favorite all time though is Bird by Bird, Anne Lamont.
Karson BrownGUEST
And I was so fortunate to meet her briefly in passing.
Karson BrownGUEST
She would never remember me in a million years, but it was at Writers Rising Conference in Hollywood a couple of years ago.
Karson BrownGUEST
And I met so many other great writers.
Karson BrownGUEST
And again, that was all part of the process of getting to where I am today.
Karson BrownGUEST
But Bird by Bird, such an inspiration given to me by one of my dearest friends.
Karson BrownGUEST
And then I have devoured memoirs since my early 20s.
Taylor TomlinsonGUEST
You're writing for somebody who's alone in bed or in their car or on the train or whatever, as opposed to like, here's something that you're probably consuming in a group, in a theater or a club or something.
David PerellHOST
I saw that stack of books that you had, that just insane stack of Bird by Bird and Good Writing by Anne Lamott.
David PerellHOST
What did you take from those books and what are the best ones? What are the best books of writing advice?
Taylor TomlinsonGUEST
I mean, Bird by Bird is the best one.
Taylor TomlinsonGUEST
I mean, it's the one that I've gone back to the most because the part of that book where she talks about how perfectionism makes you think that if you're perfect, you're never going to have to die, but you are going to die.
Taylor TomlinsonGUEST
And everybody else who wasn't as obsessed with perfection as you is going to die too, but they had more fun than you.
Lee WarrenGUEST
I had an Olympic gold medal bobsledder on my podcast, and he told me a surprising number of his peers committed suicide in the years after they won their gold medal because their whole life had been about chasing that thing, and now they had it, and now they were too old to do it anymore, and they didn't know what they were about.
Lee WarrenGUEST
that feeling they were chasing they thought that was finally going to make them stop feeling anxious or start feeling satisfied and it didn't and their whole world fell apart like if you're if your thing that you think you need is outside of you then you're in real trouble and so you have to develop this internal locus of control i've got to do the work i've got to change the attitudes i've got to figure out what my brain's doing and make it do better things by changing how i think there's a writer named anne lamott you probably know her she wrote the a book called Bird by Bird.
Lee WarrenGUEST
It's a writing book.
Lee WarrenGUEST
But she wrote a little book about hope called Almost Everything.
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
My guest today is Harlan Coben.
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
With over 100 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the number one New York Times author of 35 novels and the new memoir on writing, Plot Twist, Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft.
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
His books are published in 46 languages around the globe.
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
More on Harlan at harlancoben.com.
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
He joins me on the show to talk about his failed novels and what kept him going, incremental ambition, personal themes, how tragedies made him a better writer, twists, writing longhand, categories, and much more.
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
Harlan, it's so good to talk to you.
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
Thank you for having me.
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHOST
I've been enjoying your books.
Mark Leslie LefebvreHOST
It's almost like...
Mark Leslie LefebvreHOST
The equivalent of, I know, On Writing by Stephen King and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott are two of those classic books that you gift to writers, or at least that I would gift to writers, saying these are books that you should read.
Mark Leslie LefebvreHOST
They're more about the craft, obviously.
Mark Leslie LefebvreHOST
This is more about the business.
Amanda ParkerHOST
So I'm not going to talk too much about the content of what I'm working on, but what I will say is that with any creative endeavor, you are being asked essentially to birth something that didn't exist before.
Amanda ParkerHOST
Now, if there's any mothers that are listening today, you will have a very strong association with the words that I've just used, having brought life into this world and And for people who have created something big, maybe it's a business, maybe it's a book, maybe it's a podcast, maybe it's an art expose or anything else that you have really poured heart and soul into to bring it to life.
Amanda ParkerHOST
You're going to know exactly what I'm talking about.
Amanda ParkerHOST
There's this moment of inspiration that you might feel this flash of insight.
Amanda ParkerHOST
We are in October 2026.
Amanda ParkerHOST
I probably started to think about writing seriously last August 2025.
Amanda ParkerHOST
That was when I started buying books about writing.
Amanda ParkerHOST
I started listening to podcasts.
Sabrina BendoryGUEST
Just write anything.
Amy Nobile MessingHOST
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, says that.
Sabrina BendoryGUEST
Yes.
Amy Nobile MessingHOST
Just like write it, write it shitty, and then-
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