It Is Only By Going

Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners - And I Really Wish Somebody Had Told This To Me - That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work... Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste.

What Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners… Is That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work, We Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste. But There Is This Gap. For The First Couple Years You Make Stuff, And It’s Just Not That Good. It’s Trying To Be Good, It Has Potential, But It’s Not… Your Taste Is Why Your Work Disappoints You… We Know Our Work Doesn’t Have This Special Thing That We Want It To Have. We All Go Through This… It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.

I Don't Like That Whole "art Should Challenge You" Thing. Because I Don't Feel Like Art Actually Does Challenge You. I Was A Semiotics Major At Brown, And There's This Idea That Stories Are Better, Books Are Better, And Movies Are Better If They Cocked You Off Your Axis And You Were Completely Disoriented And You'd Really Have To Rethink Everything.

I Remember Clearly That When I Was Little It Was Explained To Me [that] The Way That Babies Were Made Was That God Put The Baby Into Some Lady's Stomach, Right? And, At Some Point, I Learned How It Really Happened, And Really That Was The Beginning Of The End Of My Belief In God. Up Until That Point, It Had Always Been A Really Weird Act Of Intervention On God's Part.

But Sadly, One Of The Problems With Being On Public Radio Is That People Tend To Think You're Being Sincere All The Time.