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Write for Your Life by Anna Quindlen

Write for Your Life

Anna Quindlen

From the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and author of A Short Guide to a Happy Life comes an inspiring book that shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should.

Write for Your Life is a guide for those who don’t, won’t, or think they can’t write, what Anna Quindlen calls “civilians.” Using examples past, present, and future—from Anne Frank to Toni Morrison to members of her own family—Quindlen makes vivid all the ways in which writing connects us, to ourselves and to those we cherish. From love letters written after World War II to journal reflections from nurses and doctors today, and using her personal experiences not just as a writer but as a mother and daughter, Quindlen makes the case that recording our daily lives in an enduring form is more important than ever. All of our histories, of current events and personal challenges, can be understood and passed down through the written word; “to write the present,” Quindlen says, “is to believe in the future.” Write for Your Life is a clarion call to pick up the pen, and find yourself.

Books by Anna Quindlen

A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

Anna Quindlen

Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen

Miller's Valley

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Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

Anna Quindlen

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

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A Truth Universally Acknowledged by C. S. Lewis, Virginia Woolf, Anna Quindlen, Harold Bloom, Susannah Carson

A Truth Universally Acknowledged

C. S. Lewis, Virginia Woolf, Anna Quindlen, Harold Bloom, Susannah Carson

Good Dog. Stay. by Anna Quindlen

Good Dog. Stay.

Anna Quindlen

Happily Ever After by Anna Quindlen, James Stevenson

Happily Ever After

Anna Quindlen, James Stevenson

How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen

How Reading Changed My Life

Anna Quindlen

Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen

Living Out Loud

Anna Quindlen

Thinking Out Loud by Anna Quindlen

Thinking Out Loud

Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen also contributed to

Teaching Hope by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell, Anna Quindlen

Teaching Hope

The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell, Anna Quindlen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Anna Quindlen

Pride and Prejudice

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About the Author

Anna Quindlen
Photo: © Maria Krovatin

Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of many novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Miller’s Valley. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear. For speaking engagements, Anna Quindlen is represented by Nancy Aaronson at the Leigh Bureau. You can reach her at nancya@leighbureau.com

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