All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer