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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity - Hugh MacLeod It is mostly a common sense advice book for creatives: do your think, work hard, keep your day job etc. Probably the wisest advice is the idea that there is no relationship between stationary accessories and your (creative) work. You won't write like Hemingway, Proust, [insert other famous writer's name] only because you have a colorful notebook and a 1.000 $ pen.

Currently reading

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
Lee Gutkind
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
Stephanie LaCava
Live or Die
Anne Sexton