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“Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that '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.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
Carmen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carmen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,378 books
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4,007 friends
453 books
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109 friends
1,041 books
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81 friends
641 books
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61 friends
792 books
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19 friends
181 books
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3,216 friends
468 books
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176 friends
0 books
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293 friends
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