Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
Invest your energy in the things you can control.
When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.
Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.
Control the things you can control.
Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.
Don't worry about what you can't control.
