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Creative Books
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 343,395 ratings — published 2012
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,141 ratings — published 2002
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,960 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 237,665 ratings — published 2015
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as creative)
avg rating 3.95 — 91,244 ratings — published 2023
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as creative)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,663 ratings — published 2014
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 104,217 ratings — published 2014
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as creative)
avg rating 4.34 — 322,717 ratings — published 2000
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,521 ratings — published 2003
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as creative)
avg rating 4.24 — 112,662 ratings — published 1994
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as creative)
avg rating 3.87 — 383,472 ratings — published 1979
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,307 ratings — published 2013
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 31 times as creative)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,772 ratings — published 2019
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as creative)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,233 ratings — published 1988
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as creative)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,109 ratings — published 1986
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as creative)
avg rating 3.94 — 444,338 ratings — published 1972
Wreck This Journal (Diary)
by (shelved 21 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,066 ratings — published 2007
Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois
by (shelved 19 times as creative)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,319 ratings — published 2012
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as creative)
avg rating 3.77 — 106,368 ratings — published 1994
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,809 ratings — published
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 3.65 — 21,400 ratings — published 2013
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,973 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,618 ratings — published 1918
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,327 ratings — published 2005
Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are (Flexibound)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,540 ratings — published 2015
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 3.62 — 18,338 ratings — published 2003
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 55,326 ratings — published 2012
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,666 ratings — published 1973
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.11 — 90,022 ratings — published 1990
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,265 ratings — published 1976
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,016 ratings — published 2005
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 100,470 ratings — published 2006
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,755 ratings — published 2008
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,579 ratings — published 2005
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,617 ratings — published 2004
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,937 ratings — published 2006
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.11 — 29,703 ratings — published 2010
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,246 ratings — published 2009
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,982 ratings — published 1996
The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.89 — 53,132 ratings — published 2009
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,227 ratings — published 1993
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.07 — 480,177 ratings — published 2012
The Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,539 ratings — published 1989
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,893 ratings — published 2000
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,988 ratings — published 2006
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,293 ratings — published 2018
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,329 ratings — published 2007
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,111 ratings — published 2001
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,770 ratings — published 1997
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,190 ratings — published 1991
“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.
At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.
But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
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It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.
At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.
But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
―
“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
