“When you think, sense, use language, or process meaning differently than others, it’s easy to forget that your ways are objectively as valuable as the more normative ones.”

“A healthy relationship to publishing and sharing our creative work doesn’t get to define our creative work entirely.”

“Sometimes, taking care of yourself is remembering that you can be creative in order to feel more like yourself, rather than waiting to feel more like yourself in order to be creative.”

“There is so much creativity that takes place outside the physical act of making. And it’s the work of those quiet, private moments that so often leads to the big, visible revelations and breakthroughs.”

“That critical, hesitant voice you sometimes hear? The one that bellows from a deep, familiar place inside you—it might not be your actual voice. It might not even belong to you.”