Tobias S. Buckell's Amazon Blog

Last night I watched Bruce Springsteen on the Daily Show talk about going out to play songs he was passionate about during the Bush years and being soundly booed *by the very people who loved his work enough to pay to come to listen to him.*

It struck me as interesting that even at the peak of a career he has to have the self confidence to produce the art he wants to produce and still stand up and receive that complicated mix of praise and negativity.

Not everyone will like what you do no matter what.

Last week I talked to a couple hundred freshmen about being a writer and one of the teachers asked how I handled negative reviews.

My response: “they are always gonna be haterz out there, you just to have keep on doing what you’re doing and try not to let them get you down.”

I was certainly incredibly cheered to find out Bruce faces the same sort of stuff, oddly enough.