Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear | 
pickEvery creative person should read this book. Written by the author of Eat Pray Love, this books is a deep dive into the writer's creative process, filled with great personal stories and cautionary tales. Being a creative person myself this book has inspired immensely. Recommended!!
pickCreativity is magic. Ideas pick and choose the right candidate. We are not meant to be tortured artists. We should do what we love and let it love us back. This book was a quick read for me! I ate it up exactly what I needed to start out this new year!
I loves this quote so much I had to put it in my office.
Last line:The treasures that are hidden inside you are hopong you will say yes.
Everything sucks, some of the time. (Mark Manson)
Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process.
...realize that your education isnt over when they say its over; your education is over when you say its over.
....everything imitates before they can innovate.
Music is nothing more than decoration for the imagination.
Pure creativity is somethingbbetterbthan a necessity; its a gift. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe.
And always remember that peoples judgments about you are none of your business.
Inspiration will overhear your pleasure, and it will send ideas to your door as a reward for your enthusiasm and your loyalty.
Do you eant to study under the great teachers? Is that it? Well, you can find them anywhere. They live on the shelves of your library....
Free yourself so that you can live and create more freely, as you were designed by nature to do.
Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling.
Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. ❤
Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them.
Your own reasons to create are reason enough.
Without this arrogance of belonging, you will never be able to take any creative risks whatsoever.
Let inspiration lead you wherever it wants to lead you.
If you're supporting yourself financially and you're not bothering anyone else, then you're free to do whatever you want with your kife.
He didnt quit his day job to follow his dream; he just folded his dream into his everyday life.
...creativity is a gift to the creator, not just a gift to the audience.
...perhaps she had become pinnrd beneath the boulder of her own reputation.
...the Romans didnt belive that an exceptionally gifted person was a genius; they believed that an exceptionally gifted person had a genius.
Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.
And we all know that when courage dies, creativity dies with it.
The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.
The hunt to uncover those jewels-- that's creative living.
The courage to go on that hunt in the first place--that's what seperates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one.
Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities.
Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known.
Without bravery, their lives would remain small-- far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.
He told them they must live their most creative lives as a means if fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
First line: Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack Gilbert, who was not related to me-- unfortunately for me.
Hoping to spend the year reading books I already own! I buy so many and never get to them, lots of hidden gems I'm sure. I love my book room.
#readinggoals #2020goals #bookshelves
pickI love Gilbert and Ive heard great great thinga about this one. There was tons of great advice and it doesnt necessarily have to apply to writing.
#gratefulreads #nonfiction
There are so many great and amazing nonfiction books. I really can‘t pick just one. Nonfiction is one of my favorite genres. The tagged book is one I have on audio.
Unbroken
The Secret
A Walk in the Woods
Wild
Ex Libris (I‘ve declared this author my new best friend even though she doesn‘t know it yet - Anne Fadiman)
The Success Principles
A Slip of the Keyboard
My Good Life in France
Whiskey in a Teacup
pickGotta love a long lazy Sunday, finished the last twenty minutes of this audiobook from Cloudlibrary. Elizabeth Gilbert has a great reading voice, I own the actual book but I just couldn‘t get into it. The audiobook is more accessible but I‘m not sure 🤔 I believe her theories about creativity. Maybe I‘m not the audience this book was written for. I wish there was a choice between Pick and So-so. Her voice was soothing and helped me fall asleep.
#BFCr2 photo challenge!
I was enamored with this book when I read it a few years ago. I think fear keeps us from lots of things, creative or otherwise. Gilbert put out an interesting podcast to go along with the book, where she helped creatives who were stuck. Check it out!
pickStarting reading Big Magic, The Alchemist, and A Really Good Day. Which one should I finish first? 😃
so-soWas this profound? No. Was this smart? Yes. To me this read as ideas I was for the most part acquainted with arranged in a sensible, useful outline. A few points did particularly catch my interest, and a few I completely tuned out during. All in all I found it lackluster.
An inspirational focus on creativity. It motivated me to get to work but also gripped me to keep turning the page.
pick“If you trust in yourself...and believe in your dreams...and follow your star... you‘ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren‘t so lazy.” - Miss Tick
Finished this just in time today (and the audio). Happy Pride Day, Portland! I had fun cheering with family and friends today 👏🏳️🌈💕 Also, it was very l o n g, and my son asked why so many people were there “advertising.”
pickI‘ve listened to Elizabeth Gilbert‘s “Big Magic” once a year for 3 years. It‘s my reminder that creativity is a necessity, and I love her voice. So last night when I got to see Liz in person it made my heart so happy. She was, of course, amazing.
Not enjoying my Saturday morning read as much as I‘m enjoying my morning reading view #EarlGrey #catsofLitsy
pickLike most books, this book definitely should speak to you at the right moment. I am glad I listened to this book because I felt it was more effective that way. And it helped me get through my writer's block and write.
