There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.
Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.