I’m too quick to jump to a negative conclusion. For example, if I’ve had a book come out recently and I’m with a friend who doesn’t mention it, instead of thinking, “This person hasn’t mentioned my book because they’re busy and haven’t had time to purchase it, much less read it, and that doesn’t mean that they don’t like me,” I will go to, “This person doesn’t care about me,” which is such a terrible, self-centered way to think. People really are busy and their world doesn’t stop just because I’ve published a novel.
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Courtney Maum
Novelist and essayist
United States
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American novelist, author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, Touch, Costalegre and the writing handbook Before and After the Book Deal.
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