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Creative Books
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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 — 338,365 ratings — published 2012
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 118,975 ratings — published 2002
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,381 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 234,965 ratings — published 2015
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as creative)
avg rating 3.96 — 85,065 ratings — published 2023
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as creative)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,550 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 — 103,054 ratings — published 2014
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as creative)
avg rating 4.34 — 318,896 ratings — published 2000
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as creative)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,882 ratings — published 2003
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as creative)
avg rating 4.24 — 111,319 ratings — published 1994
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as creative)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,232 ratings — published 2013
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as creative)
avg rating 3.87 — 380,792 ratings — published 1979
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 27 times as creative)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,410 ratings — published 2019
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as creative)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,697 ratings — published 1988
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as creative)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,848 ratings — published 1986
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as creative)
avg rating 3.94 — 437,589 ratings — published 1972
Wreck This Journal (Diary)
by (shelved 21 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,049 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 — 4,291 ratings — published 2012
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
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,752 ratings — published
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 3.77 — 104,794 ratings — published 1994
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as creative)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,203 ratings — published 1918
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 — 2,518 ratings — published 2015
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 3.65 — 21,166 ratings — published 2013
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 — 18,214 ratings — published 2003
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 54,367 ratings — published 2012
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,930 ratings — published 2005
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,264 ratings — published 2008
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as creative)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,912 ratings — published 1976
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,414 ratings — published 1973
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 99,623 ratings — published 2006
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,835 ratings — published 1990
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.02 — 29,156 ratings — published 2005
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,564 ratings — published 2004
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,013 ratings — published 2005
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,896 ratings — published 2006
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,945 ratings — published 2010
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as creative)
avg rating 4.07 — 28,691 ratings — published 2009
The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.90 — 51,395 ratings — published 2009
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,042 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 — 476,074 ratings — published 2012
The Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,350 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 — 30,748 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 — 11,873 ratings — published 2006
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as creative)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,962 ratings — published 1996
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,075 ratings — published 2001
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,560 ratings — published 1997
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,179 ratings — published 1991
What It Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,102 ratings — published 2008
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as creative)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,488 ratings — published 2010
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
― White Mountain
― White Mountain
“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
