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# Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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desertcart.com: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Audible Audio Edition): Elizabeth Gilbert, Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin Audio: Audible Books & Originals

Review: Highly recommend to Everyone, not just self-identified artists or creatives! - “Are you considering being a creative person? Too late, you already are one,” Gilbert asserts. In Big Magic, living a creative life means living a life driven by curiosity over fear and this life is accessible to all who seek it. She breaks down creativity into five essential ingredients: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, and trust. Whether readers believe in a magical world or not, her description of ideas, why they choose us, and when and why they leave is inspiring to no end and her roadmap through the twists, turns, and potential pitfalls of creativity are applicable to all who dare to venture on their own creative journey. Gilbert tackles our biggest creative fears and inner demons head-on with delicious humor, wit, and grace. She allows fear a spacious spot in the car on our creative road trip, but never allows it to give us directions and certainly not take the driver’s seat. Time and again, she effectively and effortlessly silences our inner critic on such universal experiences as: worrying about what others think of us and our creations, bowing to perfectionism instead of completion, evaluating our art as low or high, as brilliant or a disaster, the struggle to declare ourselves worthy of living a creative life, the desire to be fearless or passionate when all we need is courage and curiosity, and much more. She also explores various paradoxes of creativity: the desire for permission and the fact that we never needed it to begin with, that creativity takes persistent hard work on our part and also moments of divine inspiration that come from something else entirely, that no creation is entirely original and yet authentic expressions are always original, and the ultimate paradox: that our creative expression must be the most important thing in the world and it also must not matter at all. Written in easy to digest, bite-size chapters, readers will feel as if they’re chatting over a glass of wine with their amusing and insightful bestie, Liz, as she masterfully weaves together numerous stories from her personal and professional life with hard-earned creative wisdom, always with an endearing self-awareness that at times borders on self-deprecation, and with a charm that is nearly flirtatious. The lessons are so powerful and relatable that if one were to learn this much about their creative life in a year of therapy, they could consider it a great investment. Big Magic ultimately provides readers with the necessary courage and inspiration to live bigger, happier, and more interesting lives, coaxing out of us our own unique hidden treasures. -- Lisa Blair, MA
Review: Great read! - Loved this book. Inspirational and got me out of my comfort zone!

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly recommend to Everyone, not just self-identified artists or creatives!
*by A***. on April 3, 2021*

“Are you considering being a creative person? Too late, you already are one,” Gilbert asserts. In Big Magic, living a creative life means living a life driven by curiosity over fear and this life is accessible to all who seek it. She breaks down creativity into five essential ingredients: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, and trust. Whether readers believe in a magical world or not, her description of ideas, why they choose us, and when and why they leave is inspiring to no end and her roadmap through the twists, turns, and potential pitfalls of creativity are applicable to all who dare to venture on their own creative journey. Gilbert tackles our biggest creative fears and inner demons head-on with delicious humor, wit, and grace. She allows fear a spacious spot in the car on our creative road trip, but never allows it to give us directions and certainly not take the driver’s seat. Time and again, she effectively and effortlessly silences our inner critic on such universal experiences as: worrying about what others think of us and our creations, bowing to perfectionism instead of completion, evaluating our art as low or high, as brilliant or a disaster, the struggle to declare ourselves worthy of living a creative life, the desire to be fearless or passionate when all we need is courage and curiosity, and much more. She also explores various paradoxes of creativity: the desire for permission and the fact that we never needed it to begin with, that creativity takes persistent hard work on our part and also moments of divine inspiration that come from something else entirely, that no creation is entirely original and yet authentic expressions are always original, and the ultimate paradox: that our creative expression must be the most important thing in the world and it also must not matter at all. Written in easy to digest, bite-size chapters, readers will feel as if they’re chatting over a glass of wine with their amusing and insightful bestie, Liz, as she masterfully weaves together numerous stories from her personal and professional life with hard-earned creative wisdom, always with an endearing self-awareness that at times borders on self-deprecation, and with a charm that is nearly flirtatious. The lessons are so powerful and relatable that if one were to learn this much about their creative life in a year of therapy, they could consider it a great investment. Big Magic ultimately provides readers with the necessary courage and inspiration to live bigger, happier, and more interesting lives, coaxing out of us our own unique hidden treasures. -- Lisa Blair, MA

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read!
*by K***R on February 13, 2026*

Loved this book. Inspirational and got me out of my comfort zone!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ When creativity is both mystical and tangible...
*by C***E on December 7, 2015*

Q: What is creativity? A: The relationship between a human being and the mysteries of the universe. Thus proclaims the epigraph of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. Immediately, the reader is invited into a space not only for practical help and encouragement but also for playful exploration of Gilbert's creative mythos. Still, the book grounds itself in reality as much as mysticism, and with each essay she reminds us of the eternal paradox of creative living: that creativity means nothing, but it also means everything. In Gilbert's mythology, ideas--as literal spiritual manifestation--seek those of us who would be willing to listen to them, and then urge us onward to bring them into the world through our own creative energies. It is up to us whether we would accept that urging. The overall sentiment reads a bit like the description of classical muses without the necessity of religious dogma. Unsurprisingly, this collection of interrelated essays reads more as spiritual text than it does as a management or self-help manual (although a reader may find plenty of help within its pages). Gilbert's gift for parables shines in each of the essays in the collection. She intersperses poetic tributes to Ideas and Inspiration with down-to-earth stories about failure and success and about letting oneself go in service of a higher creative power. Within these stories she weaves a framework of creative morality by which she encourages all people to live. Mysticism aside, Gilbert's storytelling and energetic recasting of long-recited platitudes into a distinctly playful mold make for entertaining reading. For instance, Gilbert often waxes poetically on serving creativity solely for itself, and on using it as a source of joy rather than misery. One of my favorite moments comes in the essay "Have an Affair," in which she suggests sneaking off with your creativity in the middle of the workday as you would to engage in an illicit rendezvous. (I have every intention of taking her advice and dressing myself up for just such an affair in the near future.) Yet right on the heels of Gilbert's playful but spiritually-meaningful revelry comes a healthy dose of cynicism. She defines creativity as a mystical and magical process through which inspiration becomes manifest in the world, but reminds her readers that, at the end of the day, what is brought forth may be worth nothing more than the experiences you learn making it. She warns against spending excessive time or money on formal education and dismisses them as an often injudicious quest for validation of our own creativity. The artistic life, she argues, is one far more likely to bring poverty than riches. She discourages incurring unnecessary (and oftentimes useless) debt in the name of a career that may never fully blossom. She likewise reminds her readers that she herself continued working full-time at a variety of jobs before the bestseller Eat, Pray, Love became a hugely successful phenomenon. In some ways I feel as if Gilbert is my long lost evil twin: while I'm a skeptic and a cynic who desperately wants to believe in magic, she has the heart of the truest believer while keeping a foothold on the realities of artistic struggle. (Perhaps then I am the evil one.) Though the book did not enthrall me to the point of racing from the beginning to the end, the end of each essay left me afraid to put the book away, lest I miss another one of Aunt Elizabeth's wonderful and wonder-filled stories. At the very least, Gilbert reminds all of us that creativity is more a work of heart and of soul than of intellect, and that it should always be an act of play rather than a source of struggle. She argues that the path of the miserable alcoholic artist as a romantic image needs to be swept away. Instead, we must engage with our creativity the way you might a friendly sprite in the darkest of nights. You sneak away with it to do something fun, wonderful, even magical, and when it fills your soul no more you set it free. In many ways, this book says nothing that we haven't heard before. Creativity is for everyone. Anyone can be an artist, but not everyone should make it a career. Hard work and diligence are as important as inspiration. Be creative for yourself and not for anyone else. But no matter how many times we've heard these stories, we've not yet heard Gilbert tell them, and for that reason alone the book is worth the read. Her mission, as she herself states it, is to remind us that we need no one's permission to live a creative life. We just have to have the courage to live it.

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