“The first draft is a skeleton. Just bare bones. The rest of the story comes later with revising.”
"Stress is not what happens to you, but how you choose to react to it."
- Judy Blume
Awareness
"If you want to write, you should pay attention to people — everybody has a story — and listen to people when they talk."
- Judy Blume
Creativity
"When it comes to breast cancer you’re not alone, and scary though it is, there's a network of amazing women to help you through it."
- Judy Blume
Connection to Earth
"Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we touch."
- Judy Blume
Reflection
"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them."
- Judy Blume
Education
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity