Speaking of books on storytelling and creativity, I found the ones below useful. It's especially interesting to read about other creative fields, and see how they are similar to ours, or how we can “steal” ideas from them.
— “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” by Stephen King – recommended by Christoph Niemann in one of his interviews
— “Creative Quest” by Questlove (from The Roots), who shares his insecurities and how he draws inspiration from others (his knowledge of music history is truly encyclopaedic)
— “Something to food about” by Questlove, very interesting to see creativity from a food perspective
— “12 Notes: On Life and Creativity” by Quincy Jones – so many inspiring stories with different artists, across wildly different decades
— “Zen in the art of writing” by Ray Bradbury
— “Creativity Inc” by Ed Catmull, one of the Pixar founders
— “On doing nothing” by Roman Muradov
— “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon – short but very useful, good to flip through on a regular basis (also worth reading Austin's other two books too, Keep Going and Show Your Work)
— “Bird by bird” by Anne Lamott – I'm reading it at the moment after seeing it recommended by several folks I admire, it's great indeed.
Regarding ways to trick yourself into working well, “Atomic Habits” by James Clear is very useful to read, but to be honest, I often forget the tricks and have to re-learn them again and again 😅
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Btw, always great to see Saul Leiter mentioned, I love his photography. There's a great documentary about him… speaking of which, these films below are also very inspiring.
— “In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter” by Tomas Leach
— “Harry Gruyaert Photographer” by Gerrit Messiaen
— “Seymour An Introduction” by Ethan Hawke
— “Fred Rogers: Won't You Be My Neighbor?” by Morgan Neville
— “Abstract the Art of Design” by Netflix, episode 1 about Christoph Niemann
— “Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life” by Dan Covert
— “David Hockney: A bigger picture” by Bruno Wollheim
— “Inge Druckrey: Teaching to see” by Andrei Severny & produced by Edward Tufte
— “Oliver Jeffers: Like knows like” by Bas Berkhout (Oliver's Creative Luminary profile video is also full of good advice)
— “Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak” by Lance Bangs & Spike Jonze
— “Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight” by Wendy Keys
— “Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema” by Shizuo Satô (his advice for Japanese filmmakers, or any creative, is pure gold – it's the last 7 minutes, or from the 1h42min point if you watch it on Youtube)
— “Isao Takahata and His Tale of Princess Kaguya” by Akira Miki & Hidekazu Satô
— “Hayao Miyazaki: 10 Years with the Master” by Kaku Arakawa for NHK
Hah, the list got longer than I thought, but I hope you'll enjoy at least some of them 😊
What a treasure trove of suggestions! I recognise a few and some are still on the reading/watching lists and others are new to me. Brilliant! Thank you so much :)
My pleasure, thanks as well for your tips! Let me know if you're having issues finding any of the films / videos above. I didn't post the links to each of them as the comment would've been ten times longer :)
Speaking of books on storytelling and creativity, I found the ones below useful. It's especially interesting to read about other creative fields, and see how they are similar to ours, or how we can “steal” ideas from them.
— “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” by Stephen King – recommended by Christoph Niemann in one of his interviews
— “Creative Quest” by Questlove (from The Roots), who shares his insecurities and how he draws inspiration from others (his knowledge of music history is truly encyclopaedic)
— “Something to food about” by Questlove, very interesting to see creativity from a food perspective
— “12 Notes: On Life and Creativity” by Quincy Jones – so many inspiring stories with different artists, across wildly different decades
— “Zen in the art of writing” by Ray Bradbury
— “Creativity Inc” by Ed Catmull, one of the Pixar founders
— “On doing nothing” by Roman Muradov
— “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon – short but very useful, good to flip through on a regular basis (also worth reading Austin's other two books too, Keep Going and Show Your Work)
— “Bird by bird” by Anne Lamott – I'm reading it at the moment after seeing it recommended by several folks I admire, it's great indeed.
Regarding ways to trick yourself into working well, “Atomic Habits” by James Clear is very useful to read, but to be honest, I often forget the tricks and have to re-learn them again and again 😅
—
Btw, always great to see Saul Leiter mentioned, I love his photography. There's a great documentary about him… speaking of which, these films below are also very inspiring.
— “In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter” by Tomas Leach
— “Harry Gruyaert Photographer” by Gerrit Messiaen
— “Seymour An Introduction” by Ethan Hawke
— “Fred Rogers: Won't You Be My Neighbor?” by Morgan Neville
— “Abstract the Art of Design” by Netflix, episode 1 about Christoph Niemann
— “Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life” by Dan Covert
— “David Hockney: A bigger picture” by Bruno Wollheim
— “Inge Druckrey: Teaching to see” by Andrei Severny & produced by Edward Tufte
— “Oliver Jeffers: Like knows like” by Bas Berkhout (Oliver's Creative Luminary profile video is also full of good advice)
— “Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak” by Lance Bangs & Spike Jonze
— “Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight” by Wendy Keys
— “Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema” by Shizuo Satô (his advice for Japanese filmmakers, or any creative, is pure gold – it's the last 7 minutes, or from the 1h42min point if you watch it on Youtube)
— “Isao Takahata and His Tale of Princess Kaguya” by Akira Miki & Hidekazu Satô
— “Hayao Miyazaki: 10 Years with the Master” by Kaku Arakawa for NHK
Hah, the list got longer than I thought, but I hope you'll enjoy at least some of them 😊
All the best,
Iancu
What a treasure trove of suggestions! I recognise a few and some are still on the reading/watching lists and others are new to me. Brilliant! Thank you so much :)
My pleasure, thanks as well for your tips! Let me know if you're having issues finding any of the films / videos above. I didn't post the links to each of them as the comment would've been ten times longer :)