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Emma Watson Interviews Rupi Kaur for Our Shared Shelf

By Rupi Kaur — 2018

Emma Watson interviews writer/poet Rupi Kaur for her book club Our Shared Shelf.

47:41 min

Top Artists Reveal How to Find Creative Inspiration

Guy Garvey, Isaac Julien, Martha Wainwright and other artists give their top tips for unleashing your inner genius.

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Laura Barnett
2012
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100+ Ways to Inspire Creative Thinking

As a writer, I am in constant search for inspiration. Sometimes it comes to me out of the blue, but for the most part, I have to work hard for it. If only the solution were as simple as flipping a switch! Having creativity exercises on deck might just serve to unleash your creativity.

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Anna
2021
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Why Inspiration Matters

“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.” — Rudyard Kipling

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Scott Barry Kaufman
2011
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Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators

Minding the Muse is a practical handbook for the artist or writer—highly experienced, aspiring, or somewhere in between.

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Priscilla Long
2016
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Are Self-Esteem and Creativity Connected?

You have what it takes to make art, if you make the choice to take what it takes. None of us knows whether our work will end up being great or not great, remembered or forgotten.

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Priscilla Long
2016
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On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J.

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Ellen J. Langer
2025
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.

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Stephen Nachmanovitch
1991
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The Art of Creative Thinking: 89 Ways to See Things Differently

In short and engaging entries, this deceptively simple volume presents examples of creative thinkers from the worlds of writing, music, architecture, painting, technology, and more, shedding light on their process, and showing how each of us can learn from them to improve our lives and our work.

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Rod Judkins
2016
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Spark: How Creativity Works

Public Radio International’s Julie Burstein, creator of the award-winning program Studio 360, along with its host Kurt Andersen, offers a rare, fascinating glimpse into some of the 21st century’s greatest creative minds—from Yo-Yo Ma and Robert Plant to Mira Nair and Chuck Close, to David Milch...

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Julie Burstein
2012
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250 Brief, Creative & Practical Art Therapy Techniques: A Guide for Clinicians and Clients

Creative, fun & fast therapeutic warm-ups! When a client walks into the therapy room they don't know what to expect-feeling anxious, unsure and perhaps fearful.

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Susan I. Buchalter
2025
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