But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
I don't care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own.
The most important thing in my life is my work.
What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.
Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.
It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.
I always think of myself as a working girl.
My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.