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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 347,167 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as creating)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,858 ratings — published 2002
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as creating)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,409 ratings — published 2002
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as creating)
avg rating 3.94 — 94,798 ratings — published 2023
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as creating)
avg rating 4.24 — 113,644 ratings — published 1994
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as creating)
avg rating 3.96 — 239,261 ratings — published 2015
Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas. Advice & Projects from 50 Successful Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as creating)
avg rating 3.93 — 566 ratings — published 2014
The Courage to Create (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as creating)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,462 ratings — published 1975
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 31,462 ratings — published 1976
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 21,576 ratings — published 2013
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as creating)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,322 ratings — published 2014
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as creating)
avg rating 4.34 — 325,137 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as creating)
avg rating 3.77 — 107,371 ratings — published 1994
The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 3.89 — 54,353 ratings — published 2009
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,341 ratings — published 2020
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,925 ratings — published 1993
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,285 ratings — published 1986
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,983 ratings — published 1918
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 4.27 — 130,288 ratings — published 1929
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,297 ratings — published 2013
Rework (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 3.97 — 177,518 ratings — published 2010
The Natural Way to Draw (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creating)
avg rating 4.01 — 64,901 ratings — published 1941
Modern Papermaking: Techniques in Handmade Paper, 13 Projects (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.70 — 23 ratings — published
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,397 ratings — published 2007
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 3.87 — 385,643 ratings — published 1979
The Science of Storytelling (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,648 ratings — published 2019
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,087 ratings — published 1994
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,561 ratings — published 2010
Anatomy for the Artist (Spiral Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.13 — 47,750 ratings — published 1953
Anything You Want (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.11 — 24,446 ratings — published 2011
Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,512 ratings — published 2014
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,936 ratings — published 2020
Art and Faith: A Theology of Making (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,617 ratings — published 2021
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,387,584 ratings — published 2018
All That Is Made: A Guide to Faith and the Creative Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.51 — 212 ratings — published
CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.22 — 250 ratings — published 2015
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,886 ratings — published 1980
When Pencil Met Eraser (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.07 — 744 ratings — published
Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,177 ratings — published 2019
Manga for the Beginner: Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.11 — 444 ratings — published 2008
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,666 ratings — published 2010
The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Prompts and Activities to Create the Most Interesting Story for Your Character (Ultimate Role Playing Game Series)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 3.87 — 459 ratings — published 2018
The Joy of Watercolor: 40 Happy Lessons for Painting the World Around You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.33 — 351 ratings — published
The Trip to Echo Spring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,692 ratings — published 2013
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,739 ratings — published 1995
A Very Late Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 3.85 — 303 ratings — published 2018
Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,041 ratings — published 2017
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.36 — 144,903 ratings — published 2018
Born to Run (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 4.19 — 56,608 ratings — published 2016
A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creating)
avg rating 3.88 — 224 ratings — published 1993
“One of the strangest things is the act of creation.
You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument.
You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless things that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena.
And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form.
It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble.
You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing.
You have glimpsed the divine.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument.
You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless things that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena.
And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form.
It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble.
You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing.
You have glimpsed the divine.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“She brushed up against her own potential - and saw the ceiling for what it was: imagined restraint, never meant for her.”
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