Single. Recommended if you are a writer or aspire to be one. The full trajectory, from certainty about becoming a writer ("I may have been shaky about tying my shoes and telling time, but I was sure about my career, and I consider this certainty the greatest gift of my life"), to paralyzing self-criticism ("Before long I was able to think the sentence, anticipate her critique of it, and decide against it, all without ever uncapping my pen") and, finally, making peace with the transition between perfect book residing in the brain and degraded representatio, The full trajectory, from certainty about becoming a writer ("I may have been shaky about tying my shoes and telling time, but I was sure about my career, and I consider this certainty the greatest gift of my life"), to paralyzing self-criticism ("Before long I was able to think the sentence, anticipate her critique of it, and decide against it, all without ever uncapping my pen") and, finally, making peace with the transition between perfect book residing in the brain and degraded representation on the page ("I never learned how to take the beautiful thing in my imagination and put it on paper without feeling I killed it along the way. How do you support yourself while you are learning the craft? I loved Bel Canto, liked State of Wonder, but after reading Getaway, I didn't come away inspired or enlightened about the craft. Get it did. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of. Let that sink in for a moment. Every writer should write a book like this, Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2011. Particularly enjoyed author's encounters with people with people who say 'I have a great for a book. I read this in two sittings so I'm not sure that I remember what the getaway car had to do with it, but this is a comfortable, entertaining read for those writerly types among us. I read this in two sittings so I'm not sure that I remember what the getaway car had to do with it, but this is a comfortable, entertaining read for those writerly types among us.

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This is a Kindle "Short" that I enjoyed very much. Can't believe I'm giving Ann Patchett an "it's okay" review, but I was disappointed with this book. "I may have been shaky about tieing my shoes and telling time, but I was sure about my career, and I consider this certainty the greatest gift of my life. I honestly would have loved it to be longer, I could have kept reading and reading bit that's also sort of her point, now it's time to get myself writing and I really feel that this book has helped push me further in that direction than anything else I've read in a while. Well worth a read, though I suspect those who write will enjoy it more. The two launched their hit podcast Call Your... “The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. Refresh and try again. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

I've read a few of Patchett's books and I prefer the nonfiction, this especially included.

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This short piece has made me think I'd like to try one of her novels some time in the future...only I don't know which one.

The getaway car in the title is a reference to the novel she was thinking about at the time she was working as a waitress. You can't wait for it to be perfect. I'm wavering between three and four stars. Is there such a thing as writer's block?) If a person of any age picked up the cello for the first time and said, “I’ll be playing in Carnegie Hall next month!” you would pity their delusion, yet beginning fiction writers all across the country polish up their best efforts and send them off to The New Yorker.

People do that? Author: Ann Patchett, Book: The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life (2011) in PDF,EPUB. In this fascinating look at the development of a novelist, we meet Patchett’s mentors (Allan Gurganas, Grace Paley, Russell Banks), see where she made wrong turns (poetry), and learn how she gets the pages written (an unromantic process of pure hard work). The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life (Kindle Single).

… Great reading for any writer no matter what stage of a career they might be at. I don’t even want to be a writer and I found this 47 page mini-memoir really interesting and insightful.

It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write—and many of the people who do write—get lost.”, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules.

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