"The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money."

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If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

— James Lee Burke