Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.
Stephen KingThe dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.
Stephen KingBut sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Stephen KingMemories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
Stephen King