“Feedback can be good but it can homogenize what you’re trying to do. … Constant feedback isn’t adding any value for the person who is trying to find out for herself and himself who they are … Which is a really solitary and iterative process.”
Jonathan Franzen at the 2013 New Yorker Festival.
As Stephen King famously put it, "Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open." Complement and counter with more wisdom from great writers.
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