Novel writing

I've reached the age where it's easy to find flaws in myself, and almost as easy to forgive them.

I have this image of myself reading: that I'm only allowed to read great literature, and that I must get somewhere, achieve something while I'm reading, rather than just experiencing the words (feelings, ideas) the writer conveys.

When Joe, painter, says to me, writer, "we are the kind of artists' that it doesn't matter at all what other people think" I don't realize what a compliment it is until I've hung up the phone.

In other words, Joe and I are the kind of artists' who make art because we make it.