If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.”
“Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.”