{"id":1441760,"date":"2022-01-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1441760"},"modified":"2022-01-13T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T16:30:43","slug":"6-famous-authors-who-hated-their-own-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/6-famous-authors-who-hated-their-own-books\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Famous Authors Who Hated Their Own Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/33020hatedtheirownbooksMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you ever go back and read things you wrote when you were younger? I don&#8217;t, because I love myself. Honestly, I can imagine no greater torture than being forced to read my old journals from middle school. If I were a spy caught behind enemy lines, you wouldn&#8217;t need to resort to physical violence to get me talking\u2014just whip out a certain Lisa Frank notebook from 2006 and I&#8217;d be yelling \u201cStop! Please! I&#8217;ll tell you everything!\u201d before you could even finish reading the first sentence, which would undoubtedly be \u201cToday Matt broke up with me via AIM away message. Will I ever learn to love again?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From old journals to published works of fiction, I personally hate everything I&#8217;ve ever written at least a little bit. Like maybe 2%. The following authors, however, hated what they wrote the full 100%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever go back and read things you wrote when you were younger? I don&#8217;t, because I love myself. Honestly, I can imagine no greater torture than being forced to read my old journals   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,628,2140,25017,1898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441760"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443200,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441760\/revisions\/1443200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}