Who recommends it
- Christina McDonaldInterview
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert. I bought it because I love anything by Elizabeth Gilbert and it’s about trusting our own inner creative process, which seems apt right now as I’m moving my career toward being a full time author.
- Joanna PennInterview
Always read in the genre you want to write in. You can’t satisfy readers of the genre otherwise. In terms of books for writers, then Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.
- Scott StabileInterview
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott is a wonderful guide to writing (and life) for all writers (and people). Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert helps creatives establish a different relationship will all the fear that keeps them from being free in their creativity. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron offers a practical, daily…
- Beth KemptonInterview
The books I recommend most are Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Lost Japan by Alex Kerr.
- Rebecca RosenInterview
This coming year I’ll be reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, and Daring Greatly by Brene Brown; both of those are definitely on my reading list.
- Joel RobisonInterview
I think it’s important to read books that help inspire and fuel creativity as well as expose our minds to new ways of thinking. I recommend books like Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, but also autobiographies and self help books like The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein.
- Brooke ShadenInterview
- Kerry LonsdaleInterview
My to-be-read pile for fiction is endless, and I doubt I’ll make a dent in it as I seem to be adding to the pile faster than I can read. I do hope to find time for Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain and Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton. Big Magic by Elizabeth…
- Niki NakayamaInterview
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Another Country by James Baldwin
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