# The Creative Habit

## Metadata
- Author: [[Twyla Tharp and Mark Reiter]]
- Full Title: The Creative Habit
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. ([Location 118](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000SEOWBG&location=118))
- Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. ([Location 121](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000SEOWBG&location=121))
- More than anything, this book is about preparation: In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative. ([Location 133](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000SEOWBG&location=133))
- If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge. ([Location 142](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000SEOWBG&location=142))
- you can never spend enough time on the basics. ([Location 144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000SEOWBG&location=144))
- Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. ([Location 151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000SEOWBG&location=151))
- Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. ([Location 151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000SEOWBG&location=151))
- It’s a simple act, but doing it the same way each morning habitualizes it—makes it repeatable, easy to do. It reduces the chance that I would skip it or do it differently. It is one more item in my arsenal of routines, and one less thing to think about. ([Location 171](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000SEOWBG&location=171))