In many ways it was much much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people publicists and so forth implicitly.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it but when they do.
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand...
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
If you want to learn something, just steal it