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The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Paperback – Illustrated, 1 January 2006

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One of the world's leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin' Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents--at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist's Way and Bird by Bird.

All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career.

In Where's Your Pencil? Tharp reminds you to observe the world -- and get it down on paper. In Coins and Chaos, she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In Do a Verb, she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In Build a Bridge to the Next Day, she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight.

Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin...

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Simon & Schuster
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1 January 2006
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The Creative Habit emphasizes the work habits that lead to success.

-- C. Carr, O: The Oprah Magazine

[An] exuberant, philosophically ambitious self-help book for the creatively challenged.

-- The New York Times Book Review

[A]s accessible, smart and eye-opening as her dance.

-- Linda Winer, Newsday

An entertaining 'how to' guide, The Creative Habit isn't about getting the lightning bolt of inspiration, but rather the artistic necessity of old-fashioned virtues such as discipline, preparation and routine.

-- Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek

Though its context is a choreographer's world, its principles are universally applicable and sound....It could change your life.

-- Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice

Twyla Tharp's amazingly plain-spoken treatise...is a frank, honest, and tough-love testament essentially arguing that art and creativity are matters of hard, old-fashioned work.

-- Sid Smith, The Chicago Tribune

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Twyla Tharp, one of America's greatest choreographers began her career in 1965, and has created more than 130 dances for her company as well as for the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, London's Royal Ballet, Denmark's Royal Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. She has won two Emmy Awards for television's Baryshnikov by Tharp, and a Tony Award for the Broadway musical Movin' Out. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1993 and was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997. She holds nineteen honorary degrees, most recently from Harvard University. She lives and works in New York City.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0743235274
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Illustrated edition (1 January 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780743235273
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743235273

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Twyla Tharp, one of America's greatest choreographers, began her career in 1965, and has created more than 130 dances for her company as well as for the Joffrey Ballet, The New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, London's Royal Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. She has won two Emmy awards for television's Baryshnikov by Tharp, and a Tony Award for the Broadway musical Movin' Out. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1993 and was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997. She lives and works in New York City.

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Deborah Henry-Pollard

My Go To book for inspiration

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2018

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Twyla Tharp, as well as having a fabulous name, is one of America’s greatest choreographers. In this book, she converts 35 years of experience into 32 practical exercises on how to make creativity a natural part of your life, whether professionally or personally, artist or business person. My copy of this book is dog eared, covered in highlighter pen and pencil, and always on my desk for inspiration. I read it about 10 years ago and refer to it (and recommend it to others) on at least a monthly basis.

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allrightjack13

An effective strategy for any creative work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2016

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I started life as a fine artist, making work, exhibiting, etc. For a long time I had a very consistent and active creative habit. But over the years, family life and work life have taken over more of my time and attention, and my artistic practice has taken a back seat. In an effort to rekindle the creative habit in my life, I turned to this book to see if it had anything to offer. I've found it very helpful. The suggestions are effectively a strategy for any creative work. It is a practical guide underpinned by real-world experience. Although she comes from the dance world, many of the things Twyla Tharp outlines in this book resonate with me as a visual artist, but seeing them laid out clearly has helped me reconnect to habits and ideas I once knew, but didn't know I knew because they were so intrinsic to my work.

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clarislou

A militant approach to creativity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2018

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Twyla Tharp is awesome in discipline, but way too tough for me. She's militant, but this is perhaps necessary for a dancer. I prefer a softer flowing approach to creativity. See Laurence Shorter's 'Lazy Guru' or check out his blog - beautiful and inspiring.

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Nellie

A different book, well written and a good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2019

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Bought this book but didn’t have high hopes for it. I was wrong she writes well, the book is amusing and thoughtful, Twyla spent years as a choreographer but her creative planning and thought processes apply to many fields, I am reading slowly and have been enjoying very much.

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If I could boil this book down to its essence, I would say the main theme is: if you want to be creative, just make a start. But Tharp gives all sorts of tips on how to get started, how to be inspired, how to approach tasks. It really is a fascinating insight into how she maintained her creative life, and I found it a very inspiring book. My main problem regarding being creative had been a big block in just starting and getting on with it. I found the answer and the advice I really needed in this book.

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