Was just asked in an interview what one piece of advice I have for new writers.
Enjoy the act of writing.
If you can enjoy the process--the one thing you can control--then you'll be more resilient in the face of the things you can't control. And in this business, you can't control most of it.
and not exactly the same as Jane Smiley obv but a good quote from Amy Poehler's book-- "You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look."
