Creativity Episodes

"The process of writing was very therapeutic for me. I'm a busy person, always doing, doing, doing, and when I was writing, I was in this place of meditation." - Dr. Audrey Birnbaum

“Don't carry into tomorrow the things that have hurt you and weighed you down for today. Learn, take from it what you need, but let the rest go. You're too precious and too valuable to have your back broken by burdens you are not meant to bear." – Katherine Norland

"Detours are not dead ends." – Annie Meehan

“Everything happens for us. We can either choose to become a victim of it, or we can choose to rise up." - Dawn Bates

"Contemplative thought is the key to solving really hard problems, and you cannot rush that." – John Rossman

“Remember how powerful you are and that you really can do anything you decide is important enough and achieve whatever you deem worthy.” – Kate Eckman

"When you start to write, you're almost opening up this magic chest, gaining access to different parts of your brain that may not be available to you when you're speaking." - Lâle Davidson

“We have this terrible attitude that sacrifices are bad things. No, sacrifices are the things that make things meaningful to you." – August Turak

"You are far more powerful than you've been told. We have a sense of powerlessness now…I just want you to know that this power, which is usually denied by authority figures, is something you were born with." - Lynne McTaggart

"I just started writing and next thing you know I have a manuscript in front of me." - Marianna Buffolino

“After speaking to the teacher…she made me realize that it is possible, just as long as I'm willing to keep honing my craft, taking rejections well, and just keep going.” – Liv Arnold

"There can be many solutions to our financial problems, but most of us try to solve them by working more hours, and it's not an intelligent way of doing it. You have to work smarter, and the way you do it is to use your gift, use your talent." - Ken Honda

“Start doing things and figure out what it is that you want to do that leans into your creativity.” – Rella B.

“You have to create an undying, almost unrealistic belief in yourself.” – Eliot Marshall

"When you know who you are, it doesn't matter what anyone else says." – Richard Kweku EzeAgu Akinyemi

“Connect you to all of you.” - Janell Warkentin

"I'm only positive because I got knocked down so hard a few different times in my life.” – Kate McKay

"Fantasy is really healthy for the imagination…it allows people to escape and allows them to think of something different.” – Cyndi Brec

“You can't win with everybody, but you can win with yourself, so why not bet on you?” – Karin Freeland

“Writing your story is an incredibly empowering act." – Alison Wearing

"We are sending an image of ourselves through our words." - Erin Lebacqz

"Luck is the ability to take the correct action in an opportunity." - Victoria M. Gallagher

“We wanted to do something that created a personal impact for women and men, and that's where our book kind of bloomed out of.” – Lisa Cox

“As a writer, if you want to have a book published, you really need to decide and go with that choice of 'I'm going to make this happen.’” – Caroline Fernandez