I have an immensely understanding partner who does something creative herself, and we both need a lot of time alone. I structure my life around getting my work done, first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. That's the only way I've been able to do it.
Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.
Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.
Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.