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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1177 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 346,364 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1119 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,669 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 964 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 238,942 ratings — published 2015
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 904 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,165 ratings — published 2002
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 767 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.94 — 94,046 ratings — published 2023
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 593 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,924 ratings — published 2003
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 589 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.20 — 104,751 ratings — published 2014
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 563 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,215 ratings — published 2014
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.24 — 113,399 ratings — published 1994
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 324 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,349 ratings — published 2013
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 298 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,946 ratings — published 2019
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 291 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,989 ratings — published 1996
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.99 — 55,978 ratings — published 2012
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.34 — 324,653 ratings — published 2000
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.77 — 107,159 ratings — published 1994
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,605 ratings — published 2009
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,260 ratings — published 1986
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.66 — 21,547 ratings — published 2013
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.11 — 90,535 ratings — published 1990
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,199 ratings — published 1991
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,657 ratings — published 2010
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.87 — 385,200 ratings — published 1979
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,453 ratings — published 2006
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,705 ratings — published 2016
A Technique for Producing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,245 ratings — published 1940
Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,672 ratings — published 2001
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,978 ratings — published 2011
Lateral Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,839 ratings — published
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.92 — 29,874 ratings — published 2004
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,909 ratings — published 2020
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,327 ratings — published 2020
What It Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.20 — 26,264 ratings — published 2008
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,694 ratings — published 1973
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,248 ratings — published 1979
Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,683 ratings — published 2015
The Dot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.27 — 35,553 ratings — published 2003
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.98 — 100,901 ratings — published 2006
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.86 — 19,103 ratings — published 2009
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,148 ratings — published 2008
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.27 — 129,654 ratings — published 1929
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,409 ratings — published 2018
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.00 — 29,101 ratings — published 2013
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,787 ratings — published 1973
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,924 ratings — published 2005
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.11 — 30,237 ratings — published 2010
Turning Pro (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 92 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,581 ratings — published 2012
Do the Work (Audio CD)
by (shelved 92 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 21,006 ratings — published 2011
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,744 ratings — published 1998
Creative Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as creativity)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,292 ratings — published 2018
The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as creativity)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,651 ratings — published 1996
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
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“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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