Writing Creativity and Soul
Writing Creativity and Soul
hardback
Published:
23 October, 2025
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Description
Writing is more than language and story.
It also involves the creation of self.
Writing is about who we are and who we are becoming.
After taking up writing at the age of thirty, Sue Monk Kidd has created some of the world's most treasured stories. In Writing Creativity and Soul she shares exactly how she did it - from plunging her innermost depths, to voyaging to sacred spaces, to studying the precise methods of the greats and refining her own. Laying her creative journey bare, Sue explores the moments in which she lost her voice and when she found it again, as well as the profound insights she gained along the way.
Part memoir, part philosophical investigation, part advice to aspiring writers, this is a guide to awakening the soul. Everything that readers loved about The Secret Life of Bees is to be found in the pages of Writing Creativity and Soul - the warmth, the fierce intelligence, the wit, the spiritual hunger, the search for beauty and meaning and, perhaps above all, the rebel heart.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781837265008 |
| ISBN10 | 1837265003 |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 321 g |
| Product Dimensions | 138 x 220 x 22 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Canongate Books |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | Main |
Media Reviews
A beautiful, generous gift to aspiring writers -- LILY KING
A beautiful ode to creativity and the inner world of the writer and artist. This book offers a gentle journey through many of Sue Monk Kidd's own inspirations. I read it in a single sitting and came away both inspired and deeply moved . . . A beautiful book of essays about getting back in touch with your creative spark -- EMMA GANNON
Sue Monk Kidd . . . shares the story of her late-blooming life as a writer with deep feeling and generosity . . . In inspiring detail, she reveals her own process for tapping into that creative flow and the craft secrets of her fiction, as well as those of other writers whose process she has studied * * Oprah Daily * *
A gorgeous book about creativity and the unconscious mind -- CLOVER STROUD
This is a magnificent book that will enrich your life whether you are a writer or not. Sue Monk Kidd is a treasure. I hope you'll read it and press it into the hands of the people you love -- DANI SHAPIRO
Warm and inspiring . . . Sue Monk Kidd is a treasure, and I feel lucky to have this book, a blend of memoir and thoughts on craft and writing life, to keep on my desk and read early mornings and late nights as I write something new -- MEGHA MAJUMDAR
Her exploration of art, humanity, and the mystical realms between is a must for all writers, creatives, and seekers . . . This book is a portal to greater things. As ever, Sue is guiding us toward them -- SARAH McCOY
This one is phenomenal. It is a primer for everyone who ever loved to read or loved to write -- ADRIANA TRIGIANI
A deeply personal book about a life in writing - creativity, spirituality, and growth, in Sue's unmistakably wise, generous voice -- CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE
If you are writing something or creating something, if you want to create something, if you are feeling stuck or are doubting yourself, this book is such a helpful companion -- ELIZABETH LESSER
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Author's Bio
Sue Monk Kidd is the beloved bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, The Mermaid Chair, The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings. Her debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold over eight million copies worldwide, was turned into both an award-winning motion picture and a musical, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. She is the author of several acclaimed memoirs, including The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, her groundbreaking work on religion and feminism, as well as the New York Times bestseller Travelling with Pomegranates, written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. She lives in North Carolina.