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Letter 282 about confidence in his work
"I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears. But for the encouragement of C.S.L. I do ( Read more... )
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yes he really did the right type of encouragement to Tolkien, :)
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Isn't it something that the writer of something so brilliant had doubts! It's definitely encouraging to know that even the most successful authors have those insecurities (and too, the reluctance to share our babies with people who might pick it apart).
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yes he expressed what all of us feels when we publish or post something.
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