Drawing within the lines is for babies; making sure things add up is for accountants.
Jerry Saltz, How to be an Artist
Are my own stories interesting?
That’s the thing that has me in knots every single time I sit down to write or make.
I’m not entitled to an audience nor their applause. I’m not for everyone, and I really don’t want to be. I’d rather be someone’s favourite than everyone’s “Yeah, I guess she’s okay.”
While I like to think that my situation and my life are unique, I would like to think that the feelings about living and working and trying are something to someone other than me. I write to find my people. I work to find my place in the world. I create things so I can know how I feel about what happened or what is happening. If I don’t, then I don’t know how I feel.
The past almost two years have been a time where I didn’t know how I felt about much of anything.
Even when you’re making it up, make it your own.
Jerry Saltz, How to be an Artist