Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.