- Consciousness of artistic form, a comparison of the visual, gestalt art formations of children, adolescents, and layman adults with historical art, folk art, and aboriginal art, by Henry Schaefer-Simmern ; editor, Gertrude Schaefer-Simmern ; assistant to the editor, Roy E. Abrahamson ; historical drawings by Sylvia Fein
- Art matters, Neil Gaiman ; illustrated by Chris Riddell
- Where the past begins, a writer's memoir, Amy Tan
- Catching the big fish, meditation, consciousness, and creativity, David Lynch
- Make good art, the speech, Neil Gaiman
- The artist's muse, unlock the door to your creativity, Betsy Dillard Stroud
- Creators, from Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney, Paul Johnson
- The RSVP cycles;, creative processes in the human environment
- Digital barbarism, a writer's manifesto, Mark Helprin
- Novelist as a vocation, Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
- My life in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead
- How to be an artist, Jerry Saltz
- Soul at the white heat, inspiration, obsession, and the writing life, Joyce Carol Oates
- Steal like an artist, 10 things nobody told you about being creative, Austin Kleon
- Believing is seeing, creating the culture of art, Mary Anne Staniszewski
- Show & tell 6, writers on writing : excerpts & insights from the faculty of the Department of Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- The art of rivalry, four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art, Sebastian Smee
- Out of my mind, the art of creativity, by Karen M. Weihs
- Creativity, the perfect crime, Philippe Petit
- Lost in language & sound, or how I found my way to the arts : essays, Ntozake Shange
- The creative life, true tales of inspiration, Julia Cameron
- Inadvertent, Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey
- How art made the world, a journey to the origins of human creativity, Nigel Spivey
- Why I write, thoughts on the craft of fiction, edited by Will Blythe
- These precious days, essays, Ann Patchett
- Spark, how creativity works, Julie Burstein ; foreword by Kurt Andersen
- The anatomy of curiosity, Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, Brenna Yovanoff
- Freehand, sketching tips and tricks drawn from art, by Helen Birch
- How to make mistakes on purpose, bring chaos to your order, Laurie Rosenwald
- Keep going, 10 ways to stay creative in good times and bad, Austin Kleon
- Finding water, the art of perserverance, Julia Cameron
- Gentle writing advice, how to be a writer without destroying yourself, Chuck Wendig
- Henry James's portrait of the writer as hero, Sara S. Chapman
- On writer's block, a new approach to creativity, Victoria Nelson
- Novelist as a vocation, Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
- Deep writing, seven principles that bring ideas to life, Eric Maisel
- Time's stop in Savannah, Conrad Aiken's inner journey, Ted R. Spivey
- Beyond trend, how to innovate in an over-designed world, Matt Mattus
- The genius of Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate
- At the center of all beauty, solitude and the creative life, Fenton Johnson
- Walking in this world, the practical art of creativity, Julia Cameron
- Free play, improvisation in life and art, Stephen Nachmanovitch Stephen
- Group genius, the creative power of collaboration, Keith Sawyer
- Comforts of the abyss, the art of persona writing, Philip Schultz
- Make trouble, John Waters ; illustrated by Eric Hanson
- The creative act, a way of being, Rick Rubin, with Neil Strauss
- What we ache for, creativity and the unfolding of your soul, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- I think you're totally wrong, a quarrel, David Shields and Caleb Powell
- The creative habit, learn it and use it for life : a practical guide, Twyla Tharp, with Mark Reiter
- Devotion, Patti Smith