"A permission slip [to write]: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will." (artist)

— Stephen King (artwork by David Sipress)

for Creatives  |  creating isn't easy, creative fear, writing, Stephen King, cartoon, drawing/illustration, David Sipress

Finding the Faces All Around Us

the artwork of Victor Nunes

Wonders  |  art, artists, drawing/illustration

"I encourage writers to not look at their reviews, and I usually don't." (artist)

— J.A. Konrath (artwork by Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers)

for Creatives  |  create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, creative fear, art, artists, J.A. Konrath, reviews, feedback/criticism/rejection, drawing/illustration, Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers

"My experience as a reader is that the category boundaries mean very little." (artist)

— Orson Scott Card (artwork by John Jonik)

for Creatives  |  reading, books, artists, comics, Orson Scott Card, categorization of art, cartoon, drawing/illustration, John Jonik

"Drawing was very therapeutic for me.  It has always been an outlet for me to stay away from the tougher parts of life."

— Jon Contino

for Creatives  |  create for YOURSELF, value the art, Jon Contino, drawing/illustration

"When I drew, I lost myself in it and stopped thinking about everything else; it was like creating another world for myself, a world with the things I wanted to see and do.  Thank God I had that."

— Jon Contino

for Creatives  |  creating in the moment, the creative life, value the art, Jon Contino, drawing/illustration

"That's where drawing came in; creativity kept me from seeing the reality of how terrible things were." (artist)

— Jon Contino (artwork by Kevin Serad)

for Creatives  |  art, artists, creativity, value the art, Jon Contino, drawing/illustration, Kevin Serad

for Creatives  |  creative process, magic/mystery of creating/art, art, writing, poetry, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, drawing/illustration

"The little Brontës, with their kingdom of Gondaland, the infant Alcotts, young Robert Browning, and H.G. Wells all led an intensive dream-life which carried over into their maturity and took another form; and there are hundreds of authors who could tell the same stories of their youth." (artist)

— Dorothea Brande (artwork by Henrique Alvim Corrêa)

for Creatives  |  art, artists, sci-fi, fantasy, creativity, writing, storytelling, H.G. Wells, Dorothea Brande, drawing/illustration, Robert Browning, Louisa May Alcott, Brontë

"Images that make you linger, hungry to know the story behind them..."

the artwork of Rovina Cai

Wonders  |  art, artists, Rovina Cai, drawing/illustration

"One of my favorite things about illustration is getting to delve into a writer's 'world.'"

— Rovina Cai

for Creatives  |  art, artist in the art, writing, writer-reader relationship, artist's voice, Rovina Cai, drawing/illustration