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1930-1999 The
Winner The Perfect High
The Smoke Off
The Devil
and Billy Markham
Rosalie's
Good Eats Cafe
Topless Town
Hamlet as
Told on the Street
...The Songs
of Shel Silverstein |
Iwould hope that people, no matter
what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick up one
and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for
them, not for me. I think that if you're creative person, you should
just go about your business, do your work and not care about how its
received. I never read reviews because if you believe the good ones you
have to believe the bad ones too. Not that I don't care about success. I
do, but only because it lets me do what I want. I was always prepared
for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure too.
I have an ego, I have ideas, I want
to be articulate, to communicate but in my own way. People who say they
create only for themselves and don't care if they are published...I hate
to hear talk like that. If it's good, it's too good not to share. That's
the way I feel about my work.
 So
I'll keep on communicating, but only my way. Lots of things I
won't do. I won't go on television because who am I talking to? Johnny
Carson? The camera? Twenty million people I can't see? Uh-uh. And I
won't give any more interviews.
- Shel Silverstein, From Publishers Weekly, February 24,
1974
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