So then finally we got married, and we bought a brownstone house in Brooklyn. Ted works on the top floor. His studio is on the top floor. Mine is on the second floor, and we work pretty much in silence from seven o’clock in the morning until about one o’clock in the afternoon except for going up and down stairs, you know, checking each other’s work out. It goes something like, “Come up and see what I’m doing,” and I say, “No, I was up there last time. You come down here and see what I’m doing.” That kind of thing. We break for lunch, but an illustrator’s life is really pretty much a hermit’s life. You sit in your own studio, and you work in silence for however many hours you can stand it.
I can’t even listen to music when I’m working. It has to be just completely quiet.
