trust that your output
7th July 2016 | for Creatives | artist integrity, writing, poetry, the creative life, Jennie Shortridge |
"The key to living a creative life is to trust your sense of things, to trust that your output—even a sketch or hastily scribbled poem on the back of an envelope—is worthwhile."
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