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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 162 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 340,135 ratings — published 2012
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 119,828 ratings — published 2002
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,050 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 236,178 ratings — published 2015
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as creative)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,724 ratings — published 2023
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as creative)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,911 ratings — published 2014
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as creative)
avg rating 4.21 — 103,507 ratings — published 2014
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as creative)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,641 ratings — published 2000
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as creative)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,079 ratings — published 2003
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as creative)
avg rating 4.24 — 111,912 ratings — published 1994
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,266 ratings — published 2013
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as creative)
avg rating 3.87 — 381,485 ratings — published 1979
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 28 times as creative)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,545 ratings — published 2019
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as creative)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,958 ratings — published 1986
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as creative)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,931 ratings — published 1988
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as creative)
avg rating 3.94 — 440,078 ratings — published 1972
Wreck This Journal (Diary)
by (shelved 21 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,052 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 — 4,304 ratings — published 2012
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 3.77 — 105,356 ratings — published 1994
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,966 ratings — published 2011
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,777 ratings — published
Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are (Flexibound)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,527 ratings — published 2015
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,390 ratings — published 1918
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 3.65 — 21,250 ratings — published 2013
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 — 18,272 ratings — published 2003
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 54,669 ratings — published 2012
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,113 ratings — published 2005
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,301 ratings — published 2008
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.11 — 89,384 ratings — published 1990
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.23 — 31,063 ratings — published 1976
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,015 ratings — published 2005
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,506 ratings — published 1973
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 99,949 ratings — published 2006
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.02 — 29,231 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 — 12,586 ratings — published 2004
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,910 ratings — published 2006
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,127 ratings — published 2010
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.07 — 28,793 ratings — published 2009
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,970 ratings — published 1996
The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.90 — 52,036 ratings — published 2009
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,408 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 — 477,891 ratings — published 2012
The Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,439 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 — 30,800 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 — 11,909 ratings — published 2006
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,096 ratings — published 2001
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,641 ratings — published 1997
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,185 ratings — published 1991
What It Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.18 — 25,275 ratings — published 2008
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,518 ratings — published 2010
“If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.”
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“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.”
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