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I love this little book and who better to write a guide to creativity than John Cleese. It’s going to be my own little bible.
To be honest I picked up this book at the library because: 1) it is small and I feel stressed to keep up with my annual challenge goal. I know this is not the purpose of the annual goal but I hate seeing I am only 1 0r 2 books ahead, and 2) because it was written by John Cleese who is one of my favorite comediansWhile the last chapter seems to address specifically writers, I really liked the rest of the book. It struck me as a good guide to life. I am considering buying the book as I think I wo...
This is a short book of 90 pages about the creative process of writing. It's an interesting work but probably overpriced. There's some excellent information in here delivered in an amusing style. It was good to read that something I do, to let my subconscious do what it does best and think about ideas in the unconscious part of my mind overnight, is used by other people. There were many other items of advice - you can't force yourself to be creative straightaway, ideas will come to you if you cr...
I wanted a break from heavy, analysis-laden books and decided to read something lighter, so I picked up Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide.This is, indeed, a short and cheerful guide. It's also one of the best books I've ever read about the creative process. It includes concepts from "Thinking Fast and Slow" and how the reader can use a "back burner" approach to foster creativity.This is a GREAT read. Highly recommended!
We would watch Month Python together, my hubby and I, but it was Fawlty towers that won my heart. John Cleese is brilliant. In this short book he shows us how our unconscious works, to aid us when we least expect it, often serving as a guide. Also ways to be creative and what being creative means. It doesn't just mean knitting, painting etc. but extends to many different fields. Being creative, thinking outside the box. What do we need to be creative and how to start. Much seems like common sens...
"'Brevity is the soul of wit.' It is also the soul of not boring people." A guide that practices what it preaches, how lovely. It is short and interesting, ideas on how to be creative from a Python (who else better to aid us?). Also sharing the method of Dalí and Edison, which is falling asleep in a chair with something heavy and metallic in the hand and a metal bowl under the hand so that the clink would wake them up as soon as they drifted off, thus harnessing the most creative moments, those
"We came to understand that the blockages weren't an interruption in the [creative] process, they were part of it. For example, when you eat, the bit where the fork returns empty to your plate isn't a failure. It's just a part of the eating process."What a lovely little bite of a book. Clocking in at just 103 very scantily printed pages, it's like a peanut butter cup of inspiration. You can't survive on it but if you just need a little something to motivate you and cheer you up, here it is.
Who better to tell us a few things about creativity than John Cleese, the beloved award-winning writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and a ton of other great stuff, eh? A more cynical person might say the book has “stocking-stuffer” written all over it because the content is about the length of an essay stretched out into a dinky, gift-sized hardback aimed squarely at the more bookish members of your fam. But not me - I don’t think there’s a “might” about it! Still, it’s not a bad read. It’s m...
This is not, in any real sense, a book. Yes, my copy is hardbound and 100 pages long, but all the monkey business that the publishers engaged in to get it to 100 pages made me laugh. They brought the margins in, blew up the font size, formatted to maximise blank space, and always left a lot of room between one line and the next. It reminded me of the shenanigans I pulled every time I was assigned to write a paper in high school. I'd quickly type out about 300 words and then I'd monkey with forma...
