Never Say You Cant Survive, Charlie Jane Anders
Never Say You Cant Survive, Charlie Jane Anders
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Never Say You Can't Survive
How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories

Author: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrator: Charlie Jane Anders

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/17/2021

Synopsis

"Part memoir, part pep talk, the timely and inspirational guide for listeners and writers alike exudes Anders's colloquial and casual presence." - AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

From Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night, this is one of the most practical guides to storytelling that you will ever hear.

The world is on fire.
So tell your story.

Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it’s easy to feel helpless. But we’re not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible.

Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for creativity in unprecedented times.

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About Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming August 2025 from Tor Books. Her other novels include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can't Survive (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on October 02, 2021

3.5 stars. Not a life-changing book that would alter the way I write, but a good pep talk thanks to Anders' infectious passion for writing.......more

Goodreads review by Nina on May 01, 2021

Never Say You Can't Survive is a lot more than a manual about writing and life – it is solid gold sprinkled with fairy dust. I am a bestselling published author in three genres, and a totally story structure geek, and I can honestly say that this is the first book that I have read in a long time that......more

Goodreads review by Stitching on April 01, 2025

I expected this book to be more on the essay side and as it turns out it was more on the writing tip side, as someone who only writes fiction as way to process things but with no intention to ever publish anything I don't think I was quite the right audience. That being said, it was very readable an......more

Goodreads review by Alan on August 31, 2021

Charlie Jane Anders' book Never Say You Can't Survive is not just a memoir. Nor is it just a writing guide. Never Say You Can't Survive is a manifesto, and all the better for it—it's a polemic, and a pep talk, too, with practical advice for the aspiring writer as well as for readers of their works.......more

Goodreads review by Emmalita on June 20, 2021

I felt a little guilty when I was notified that I had been granted an advance reader copy of Charlie Jane Ander’s essay collection, Never Say You Can’t Survive. I am not a writer and I have no aspirations to be a writer. I have no qualifications for judging this book. However, I have never let a lac......more

Awards

  • Hugo Award - Winner
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