The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

