Margot Livesey: I have the good fortune to be married to someone who believes passionately in art, and who spends much of his time in his studio making beautiful large abstract oil paintings.
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Margot Livesey: I think there actually is. Eric is a wonderful reader, so we share a lot of books together in various ways. We're always talking about what we're reading, what we see, and what we're reading. He reads a little bit more nonfiction than I do, but we both read a lot of novels. And his paintings are-- his beautiful paintings are made very much by-- in layers, by sort of painting layer after layer, so when you look at the paintings, they have this wonderful mysterious radiance that you can't quite explain, and that feels a lot, to me, like what I'm doing when I'm writing a novel. You know, first I'm putting up the scaffold, and then I'm putting up the structure of the house, and then I begin doing wiring and plumbing and plastering and all those things. So I feel there's a good deal of similarity in our approaches to our crafts.
Music credit: Excerpt composed and performed by Paul Rucker from his album, History of an Apology, used courtesy of Paul Rucker.
