On Our Bookshelves: The Creative Process

Creativity: it in no way falls from the sky. Wish for it as we may, the best ideas aren’t strokes of luck; they’re hard-earned results—the reward for trying and failing, and trying and failing, and trying and failing some more. Though that might not sound like much of a love letter, there’s nothing like a breakthrough to send your heart soaring. Need some inspiration? Here are some thoughts on creative living. Happy reading.

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books

Why Not Me?, by Mindy Kaling, Crown Archetype

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, by Austin Kleon, Workman Publishing Company

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott, Pantheon

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace, by Gordon MacKenzie, Viking

The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything, by Neil Pasricha, G.P. Putnam’s Sons

The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds, -Candlewick

Let the Elephants Run, by David Usher, Anansi t8n