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Back up to: Spark & Fire: Fuel Your Creativity

1. Writer/filmmaker Kemp Powers on Pixar鈥檚 "Soul"

   Create an authentic character.
2. Writer Susan Orlean on "The Orchid Thief"

   How to begin
3. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis on "The Democracy! Suite"

   Play to an elevated purpose.
4. Salsa legend Rub茅n Blades on the iconic song 鈥淧edro Navaja鈥�

   Trust your instinct.
5. Photographer Stephen Wilkes on the 2021 Inauguration Photo

   Build your creative vision.
6. Novelist Yaa Gyasi on "Transcendent Kingdom"

   Create the conditions for your own creativity.
7. Novelist Isabel Allende on 鈥淭he House of the Spirits鈥�

   Turn memory into art.
8. Musician Ben Folds on 鈥淲hatever and Ever Amen鈥�

   Be utterly honest.
9. Filmmaker Rian Johnson on 'Knives Out'

   Cultivate a child's sense of wonder
10. Designer Thomas Heatherwick on NYC's 鈥淰essel鈥�

    Creativity starts with play.
11. Choreographer Bill T. Jones on 鈥淎fterwardsness," his pandemic masterpiece

    Turn crisis into art.
12. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma on the Silk Road Project

    Got a big vision? Learn to spark others.
13. Book designer Chip Kidd on the "Jurassic Park" book cover

    Learn to get unstuck.
14. Apollo Theater鈥檚 Kamilah Forbes on 鈥淏etween the World and Me鈥�

    Great collabs start with trust.
15. Actor Randall Park on making "Always Be My Maybe"

    Stay authentic to yourself.
16. 5 ways to get creatively unstuck

    Getting stuck is part of the creative journey. Here are 5 ways to regain your momentum.
17. "The Queen's Gambit" producers Allan Scott and Bill Horberg

    Stick with it.