If you’re looking for a book that will inspire, encourage and motivate you, then Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic is a perfect choice. This uplifting book is packed with insight and wisdom about creativity, and it’s sure to leave you feeling energized and motivated to pursue your creative passions. In Big Magic, Gilbert shares her personal journey to self-discovery and examines the role of creativity in our lives. She encourages readers to embrace the power of creativity and to trust in their own unique artistic vision. Gilbert’s inspiring words will leave you feeling empowered to create something of your own. 

Big Magic: A Creativity Bible 

Big Magic is an uplifting and inspiring book about creativity and the power of self-expression. In it, Gilbert encourages readers to embrace their creativity and trust in their own unique artistic vision. She shares her own journey to self-discovery and examines the role of creativity in our lives. Gilbert’s inspiring words will leave you feeling empowered to create something of your own.

The main themes of Big Magic are creativity, self-expression, and trust. Gilbert encourages readers to be brave and to take risks with their creativity. She encourages readers to embrace their unique talents and to put their trust in their own artistic vision. She emphasises the importance of taking risks and learning from failure. Through her own experiences, Gilbert shows readers that creative success is not about achieving perfection, but about allowing yourself to be vulnerable and to take risks.

Gilbert also covers the topics of fear, doubt, and resistance. She acknowledges the fear and doubt that can accompany creative pursuits and encourages readers to break through this resistance. Gilbert shares her own struggles with fear, doubt, and resistance, and how she has learned to overcome them. Her words of wisdom will help readers to face their own fears and push through their doubts.

Gilbert’s writing style is warm, funny, and upbeat. She weaves her own personal stories and experiences throughout the book, making it an engaging and entertaining read. Gilbert’s writing is filled with humour and wit, and she has a knack for making even the most complex topics entertaining and easy to understand. Themes The main themes of Big Magic are creativity, self-expression, and trust. Gilbert encourages readers to embrace their unique talents and to trust in their own artistic vision. She emphasizes the importance of taking risks and learning from failure. She also acknowledges the fear and doubt that can accompany creative pursuits and encourages readers to break through this resistance. 

Our Favourite Quotes from Big Magic

Big Magic is filled with inspiring quotes and wisdom. Here are a few of our favourites:

• “Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don’t need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.”
• “Your life is short and rare and amazing and miraculous, and you want to do really interesting things and make really interesting things while you’re still here.”
• “Let people have their opinions. More than that–let people love their opinions, just as you and I are in love with ours. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else’s blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people’s judgments about you are none of your business.”
• “You are worthy, dear one, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, regardless of the outcome. You will never lose trust in the creative process, even when you don’t understand the outcome.”
• “I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.”
• “Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life.”
• “Creative living is a path for the brave. We all know this. And we all know that when courage dies, creativity dies with it. We all know that fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.”
• “Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.”
• “If you can’t learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you’ll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.”
• “Most of all, be ready. Keep your eyes open. Listen. Follow your curiosity. Ask questions. Sniff around. Remain open. Trust in the miraculous truth that new and marvellous ideas are looking for human collaborators every single day. Ideas of every kind are constantly galloping toward us, constantly passing through us, constantly trying to get our attention.”
• “I don’t sit around waiting to write until my genius decides to pay me a visit. If anything, I have come to believe that my genius spends a lot of time waiting around for me — waiting to see if I’m truly serious about this line of work.”
• “Often what keeps you from creative living is your self-absorption (your self-doubt, your self-disgust, your self-judgment, your crushing sense of self-protection).”
• “We’re all related, after all, so there’s going to be some repetition of creative instinct. Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours.”
• “Of course, it’s difficult to create things; if it wasn’t difficult, everyone would be doing it, and it wouldn’t be special or interesting.”
• “Whether you think you’re brilliant or you think you’re a loser, just make whatever you need to make and toss it out there. Let other people pigeonhole you however they need to.”
• “Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job of a creative person.”
• “Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process.”
• “It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.”
• “You don’t just get to leap from bright moment to bright moment. How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren’t going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creative living.”
• “Perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear. I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat, pretending to be elegant when actually it’s just terrified.”
• “We need something that takes us so far out of ourselves that we forget to eat, forget to pee, forget to mow the lawn, forget to resent our enemies, forget to brood over our insecurities.”
• “Completion is a rather honorable achievement in its own right. What’s more, it’s a rare one. Because the truth of the matter is, most people don’t finish things! Look around you, the evidence is everywhere: People don’t finish. They begin ambitious projects with the best of intentions, but then they get stuck in a mire of insecurity and doubt and hairsplitting . . . and they stop.”
• “What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it’s sacred. What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life.

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert is an uplifting and inspiring read about creativity and the power of self-expression. Through her own experiences, Gilbert encourages readers to embrace their creativity and trust in their own unique artistic vision. Gilbert’s writing is warm, funny, and indulgent, and she has a knack for making even the most complex topics entertaining and easy to understand. Big Magic will leave you feeling energised and motivated to pursue your creative passions.