Creativity
A Short and Cheerful Guide   

"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 a......more

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......more

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......more

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 ide......more

A short and quite entertaining book in which John Cleese supplies tips on how to be creative, even if you think you're not a naturally creative person.......more