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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

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It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

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I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem.

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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

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I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'

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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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