The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.
You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these obstacles is to write your way through them. And writing always works.
I learned to love stories by listening to them.
We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.
As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.
Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.