I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.