Authors resisted revising their decades-old text despite acknowledged flaws

Evidence

In the end you must make a decision, but why not postpone it till the last possible point? Because once you have made the commitment, what you have written starts to look right. It gains a brutal ascendancy over you. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1078 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Committed text gains a brutal ascendancy that distorts structural revision. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1078; Failed or refuted works often stay canonized through sustained critique

Broader Connections

• Committed text gains a brutal ascendancy that distorts structural revision. #expands (0.85) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1078
• Failed or refuted works often stay canonized through sustained critique #corroborates (0.78)