While writing my book about living in the Swiss Alps, here are the books about creativity that have been inspiring me to write.
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn: finding strength and facing illness with a 630-mile hike
“Most people go through their whole lives without answering their own questions: What am I,…
“Life – her life – depended on self-discipline”: Reading Elephant Moon by John Sweeney to rediscover perseverance and wonder
I don’t think anyone’s immune from the doldrums. The same goes for loneliness. Just recently,…
“The universe is made of stories, not atoms”: 10 reasons to tell your story, as inspired by Bobette Buster’s Do Story
Bobette Buster, a story consultant, lecturer and screenwriter, covers a huge amount in the 112 pages…
Marina Keegan’s list of interesting stuff, and why we should create our own
I wrote about Marina Keegan’s book The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories towards the end…
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Books That Kept Her Strong, Including John le Carré, Austen & WWI Poetry
BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs makes for intriguing listening. Each episode invites the chosen…
“Let My Country Awake” by Rabindranath Tagore to Inspire Individual and Social Change
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late…
Feel Inspired by… The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
Everyone seemed to love The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and…
Will Smith’s Inspirational Quote on Running and Reading
Will Smith on running and reading. Image from Film School Rejects. Will Smith is a…