Big Magic
Description
The instant number one New York Times bestseller, from the author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls.
Elizabeth Gilbert digs into her own working process to write about creativity: where inspiration comes from, what to do with curiosity, and how to let go of the suffering that so often gets attached to making things. She writes about how to face down what you most fear, and about the attitudes and habits a creative life actually runs on.
Whether you are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways at a problem in your work, start something long deferred, or simply put more attention into an ordinary day, this is about the strange jewels hidden in everyone.
Why We Carry It
Gilbert treats inspiration as something with its own will that comes looking for you and will leave if you make it wait. That is a magical worldview wearing a trade paperback cover, and it is why this book sits on our shelf and not just in the self-help aisle.
Who It Is For
Anyone with a project they keep not starting, and anyone who has finished one and cannot work out how to start the next.
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