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You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.

I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

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.