People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.
It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
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