When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.
When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.