Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.
When things get tough... Make good art.
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.
And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.
Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and donโt worry about it.