The Notebook

Creativity in general aligns with our sense of why literature is important for readers and writers–it flexes our thinking capabilities and connects us to others. As Polly Car notes, the power of creativity is, in part, “To see yourself small on the stage of another story; to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power to make your life, to make others, or to break them, to tell stories rather than be pulled by them.”