Friday, February 17, 2006

I'm not alone

Hating a book comes because novelists never get it completely right. We always miss, by a hairsbreadth if we're lucky, worse if we're not, the vision we've chased Ahab-like for years.
-- author Tom Grimes
Not that I thought I was the only writer who'd ever gone through the My-Book-Sucks angst (as lamented most recently here), but it's encouraging to hear from a best-selling, Edgar Award-nominated author.

Tess Gerritsen explains Why Authors Hate Their Books.

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