"I think I was forty before I realized that every writer who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his God given talent. If you write or dance or paint or sing, I suppose, someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”
Steven King
To me this statement seems an irritated selfish exaggeration of a successful writer. What does he want? A comfortable saddle on Shakespeare's back? A prestigious literature price? A magic formula which prooves beyond any possible doubt that success is ALWAYS due to quality?
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If Steven King doesn't like this, he should become a dentist.
Kathleen Rowling doesn't have so much heartburn.
At the age of forty, it´s rather late when you hear the first time such a critic about your wasted talent. You must not be a writer or painter, every child gets this message sometimes or often, either sitting in front of a TV or playing idiotic games and so and so. Wasted time, wasted talent, wasted money, wasted opportunities, wasted effort. As far as I remember even God, when he was young, received critics like this.
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