# The Creative Habit ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/417F012uSKL._SL200_.jpg) ## 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))