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A review by kateoneill
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
5.0
A lovely treatise on creative living, with ample anecdotes from Gilbert's own experiences and from others.
As the title suggests, Gilbert's clearly takes a magical thinking sort of approach to creativity, animating and empowering ideas with the ability to choose their human partners, and so on. It's a romantic notion, and one I don't take literally as a rational, skeptical person, but I can still see the charm in thinking of it that way, and I don't have a better explanation for how ideas work anyway. In fact, I just heard Jerry Seinfeld say something very similar about ideas in his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee show, something about how they're just flying around and you have to grab one, so it's a view of creativity shared by at least one other successful creative mind of our time.
At any rate, the anecdotes and reassurances in the book should be inspiring and motivating for just about anyone who relates to the call to creative living.
As the title suggests, Gilbert's clearly takes a magical thinking sort of approach to creativity, animating and empowering ideas with the ability to choose their human partners, and so on. It's a romantic notion, and one I don't take literally as a rational, skeptical person, but I can still see the charm in thinking of it that way, and I don't have a better explanation for how ideas work anyway. In fact, I just heard Jerry Seinfeld say something very similar about ideas in his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee show, something about how they're just flying around and you have to grab one, so it's a view of creativity shared by at least one other successful creative mind of our time.
At any rate, the anecdotes and reassurances in the book should be inspiring and motivating for just about anyone who relates to the call to creative living.