“I am determined to have fun doing my work… if I’m enjoying myself then that feeling is passed on to the reader.”
—Ed Emberley

I read an essay about why Eve Babitz is having such a moment right now, and at the end I wanted to shout at someone, “IT’S BECAUSE SHE WAS HAVING FUN.”

In life and on the page.

Barely anybody around is having any fun right now, and we need people to show us how it’s done.

I ask myself this question all the time now: “Who seems like they’re really having fun with it?”

I try to identify who’s having fun with it and then I try to see if there’s something I can steal from them.