How could you live and have no story to tell? — Fyodor Dostoevsky In the end, we all become stories. — Margaret Atwood - Lisa Congdon

Take a Break from the Internet To home in on your voice, you must first abandon the messages in your mind that tell you how you should be doing something, so that you can free yourself to create art that is authentic to you.

With rare exceptions, we become who we become as artists because we are influenced by other artists, not despite that fact. No idea is completely original, and being influenced by the work of other creative people and movements is part of the process of finding your voice.

The truth is, we’re all like that, full of things even when we think we’re not.