“However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.” — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quote

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

As an undergraduate, I took two writing workshops taught by Elizabeth Hardwick. She was certainly a major influence, though more as a writer I greatly admired than as a teacher. As for other writers, I think it's safe to say that my work has been and continues to be influenced to one degree or another by every writer whose work I love and admire.

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

When I am around people I most admire, I tend to hug the wall.

Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.