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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,262 ratings — published 2012
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 117,708 ratings — published 2002
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,404 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 233,160 ratings — published 2015
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 80,546 ratings — published 2023
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as creative)
avg rating 4.08 — 60,883 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 4.21 — 102,217 ratings — published 2014
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as creative)
avg rating 4.34 — 316,419 ratings — published 2000
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as creative)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,641 ratings — published 2003
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as creative)
avg rating 4.24 — 110,519 ratings — published 1994
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,173 ratings — published 2013
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as creative)
avg rating 3.87 — 379,365 ratings — published 1979
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 26 times as creative)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,227 ratings — published 2019
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as creative)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,345 ratings — published 1988
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as creative)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,731 ratings — published 1986
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as creative)
avg rating 3.94 — 433,486 ratings — published 1972
Wreck This Journal (Diary)
by (shelved 21 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,042 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 — 4,270 ratings — published 2012
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 3.65 — 21,061 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 — 5,960 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,920 ratings — published 1918
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,726 ratings — published
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 3.77 — 103,822 ratings — published 1994
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 53,967 ratings — published 2012
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 4.03 — 2,510 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 — 18,144 ratings — published 2003
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,110 ratings — published 2008
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 — 21,305 ratings — published 1973
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,726 ratings — published 1976
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.02 — 28,989 ratings — published 2005
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,539 ratings — published 2004
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,682 ratings — published 2005
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 99,076 ratings — published 2006
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,076 ratings — published 1990
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,867 ratings — published 2006
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,620 ratings — published 2010
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.07 — 28,502 ratings — published 2009
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,012 ratings — published 2005
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.00 — 131,362 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 4.08 — 472,933 ratings — published 2012
The Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,236 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 — 30,614 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 — 11,819 ratings — published 2006
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,940 ratings — published 1996
The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.90 — 50,306 ratings — published 2009
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,040 ratings — published 2001
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,454 ratings — published 1997
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,173 ratings — published 1991
What It Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.18 — 24,891 ratings — published 2008
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,410 ratings — published 2010
“Life's too short to hide who you are because you're afraid of getting hurt.”
― The Fine Print
― The Fine Print
“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.”
―
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.”
―
