Write for Your Life - Anna Quindlen

Write for Your Life

By Anna Quindlen

  • Release Date: 2022-04-12
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Score: 4.5
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Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from “one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life” (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should. 

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.”

Reviews

  • A love letter to writing of all kinds

    5
    By Anne Janzer
    “Something written by hand brings a singular human presence that the typewriter or the computer cannot.” Quindlen was a journalist. She’s a Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist. But this book is quite simply a love letter to writing, in all of its forms: the grade school assignments, the letters to loved ones—the writing that belongs to all of us, no matter what title we hold. It’s inspiring me to start hand-writing more notes, and to take more joy in my journals and stories.