The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn't exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.
I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.
Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
I do pick my projects very meticulously. I want my projects to be meaningful.
I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.
People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.