My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.
Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
I write with as much objectivity as I can.
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.