C'est un article de John Scalzi : 10 Things to Remember About Authors.

Voici les 10 points : (lui les développe)
1. Authors aren’t machines
2. Authors are human
3. Authors have lives
4. Authors frequently won’t tell you about the details of their lives
5. Authors do many things for many reasons
6. One author ≠ another author
7. One novel ≠ another novel
8. Authors and their circumstances change over time
9. Authors’ careers (and choices therein) are not always entirely under their control
10. Keep all of the above in mind the next time you go snarking off on your favorite author for not jumping through your hoops.