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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1133 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 327,988 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1037 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 117,744 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 908 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 230,390 ratings — published 2015
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 842 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 115,294 ratings — published 2002
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 636 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,808 ratings — published 2023
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 579 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.08 — 40,526 ratings — published 2003
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 576 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.21 — 101,030 ratings — published 2014
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.09 — 59,391 ratings — published 2014
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,089 ratings — published 2013
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.24 — 109,135 ratings — published 1994
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 286 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,830 ratings — published 2019
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 283 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,893 ratings — published 1996
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,456 ratings — published 2012
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.34 — 312,346 ratings — published 2000
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.77 — 101,700 ratings — published 1994
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,438 ratings — published 2009
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.11 — 86,881 ratings — published 1990
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,464 ratings — published 1986
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,163 ratings — published 1991
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.65 — 20,843 ratings — published 2013
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,436 ratings — published 2010
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.87 — 374,778 ratings — published 1979
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,169 ratings — published 2016
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.76 — 19,044 ratings — published 2006
Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,642 ratings — published 2001
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,947 ratings — published 2011
A Technique for Producing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,119 ratings — published 1940
Lateral Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,713 ratings — published
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.92 — 29,570 ratings — published 2004
What It Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,709 ratings — published 2008
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,233 ratings — published 2020
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,157 ratings — published 1979
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,802 ratings — published 2009
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,047 ratings — published 2020
Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,623 ratings — published 2015
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,675 ratings — published 1973
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.98 — 98,174 ratings — published 2006
The Dot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.26 — 34,642 ratings — published 2003
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.17 — 13,875 ratings — published 2008
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.28 — 116,224 ratings — published 1929
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
by (shelved 96 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 26,669 ratings — published 2013
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.28 — 19,790 ratings — published 2018
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,087 ratings — published 2005
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,335 ratings — published 2010
Do the Work (Audio CD)
by (shelved 92 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,775 ratings — published 2011
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,085 ratings — published 1973
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,621 ratings — published 1998
Creative Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,176 ratings — published 2018
Turning Pro (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,064 ratings — published 2012
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.15 — 46,783 ratings — published 1988
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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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
