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If I Revise A Children's Book, If I'm Spending Three Hours On The First Draft, I'm Probably Spending 30 Minutes Revising It. I Mean, Come On! But To Redo A Painting? That's Hard Work.

My Process Is Surprisingly Straightforward. I Find Myself With Little To Do Over A Stretch Of Time And I Say, "i Should Write Children's Books Today." Then I Sit Down And Write A Children's Book, And If It Takes More Than, Realistically, Three Hours, I Feel Like I've Done Something Wrong.

When You're Writing Something, And You're Putting Yourself Out There, Or You're Performing And Someone Comes In And Savages That, Then Of Course It Feels Personal. It Doesn't Feel Like It's Just Business, Because There's No Business - It's Not Like We're Conducting Business, This Anonymous Critic And I. It's Just That This Person Is Tearing Me A New Asshole.

I Don't Watch That Much Comedy. I Think It's Professional Jealousy. That And A Lack Of Support For My Community.

I'm Enough Of An Optimist And A Patriot To Believe That In U.s. You Have A Lot Of Opportunity And Can Do Pretty Much Anything You Want In Some Form. For Me, The Idea Of Failure Is Far Preferable To The Idea Of Regret.