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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 355,364 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 127,081 ratings — published 2002
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,063 ratings — published 2002
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as creative)
avg rating 3.94 — 102,104 ratings — published 2023
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 242,271 ratings — published 2015
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as creative)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,553 ratings — published 2014
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 106,222 ratings — published 2014
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as creative)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,285 ratings — published 2000
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 43,826 ratings — published 2003
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as creative)
avg rating 4.24 — 115,737 ratings — published 1994
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 34 times as creative)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,404 ratings — published 2019
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as creative)
avg rating 3.88 — 391,228 ratings — published 1979
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,445 ratings — published 2013
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as creative)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,477 ratings — published 1988
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as creative)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,551 ratings — published 1986
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as creative)
avg rating 3.95 — 460,227 ratings — published 1972
Wreck This Journal (Diary)
by (shelved 21 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,074 ratings — published 2007
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as creative)
avg rating 3.78 — 111,390 ratings — published 1994
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 — 4,343 ratings — published 2012
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,883 ratings — published
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 3.66 — 21,817 ratings — published 2013
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as creative)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,993 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,528 ratings — published 1918
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,998 ratings — published 2005
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 4.04 — 2,589 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 — 18,511 ratings — published 2003
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 4.00 — 57,138 ratings — published 2012
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,710 ratings — published 2004
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 — 22,047 ratings — published 1973
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 102,115 ratings — published 2006
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.23 — 16,832 ratings — published 2008
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 91,972 ratings — published 1990
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,792 ratings — published 1976
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,028 ratings — published 2005
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,581 ratings — published 2005
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,007 ratings — published 2006
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,613 ratings — published 1993
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,191 ratings — published 2010
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,317 ratings — published 2009
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,016 ratings — published 1996
The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,767 ratings — published 2009
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.07 — 487,073 ratings — published 2012
The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,913 ratings — published 1989
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 3.78 — 12,205 ratings — published 2006
Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,200 ratings — published 2017
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,494 ratings — published 2007
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,211 ratings — published 2001
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,106 ratings — published 1997
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,214 ratings — published 1991
What It Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,056 ratings — published 2008
“Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.”
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“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies, poets tend to let their thoughts conjure a rhyme in tune with the extraordinary struggles of ordinary life.”
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