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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1195 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 353,733 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1133 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,703 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 987 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 241,658 ratings — published 2015
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 924 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,536 ratings — published 2002
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 806 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.94 — 100,853 ratings — published 2023
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 602 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.20 — 105,974 ratings — published 2014
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 594 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.11 — 43,722 ratings — published 2003
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 575 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,350 ratings — published 2014
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.24 — 115,426 ratings — published 1994
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 327 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,406 ratings — published 2013
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 307 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,315 ratings — published 2019
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 295 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,012 ratings — published 1996
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.00 — 57,180 ratings — published 2012
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.34 — 328,525 ratings — published 2000
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.77 — 110,145 ratings — published 1994
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,342 ratings — published 2009
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.10 — 91,699 ratings — published 1990
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,489 ratings — published 1986
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.65 — 21,767 ratings — published 2013
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,212 ratings — published 1991
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,723 ratings — published 2010
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.88 — 389,979 ratings — published 1979
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,133 ratings — published 2006
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,115 ratings — published 2016
A Technique for Producing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,291 ratings — published 1940
Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,699 ratings — published 2001
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,992 ratings — published 2011
Lateral Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,883 ratings — published
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.92 — 29,935 ratings — published 2004
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,085 ratings — published 2020
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,417 ratings — published 2020
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,702 ratings — published 1973
What It Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,075 ratings — published 2008
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,277 ratings — published 1979
Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,696 ratings — published 2015
The Dot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.27 — 36,013 ratings — published 2003
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.98 — 101,893 ratings — published 2006
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.86 — 19,190 ratings — published 2009
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.26 — 134,702 ratings — published 1929
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 101 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.27 — 21,109 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.23 — 16,851 ratings — published 2008
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,021 ratings — published 1973
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,904 ratings — published 2013
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,589 ratings — published 2005
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,210 ratings — published 2010
Do the Work (Audio CD)
by (shelved 92 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 21,085 ratings — published 2011
Creative Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,322 ratings — published 2018
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,785 ratings — published 1998
Turning Pro (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,722 ratings — published 2012
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,360 ratings — published 1988
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
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“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
