I don't particularly like writing, but I quite like having written.
No sensible person writes a book, much less a second or third one, but as Dorothy Parker explained, "I hate writing but I love having written." Richard Bach described the writing process thus: “I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won’t even reach for a pencil. ... But once in a while there’s a great dynamite-burst of flying glass and brick and splinters through the front wall and somebody stalks over the rubble, seizes me by the throat and gently says, “I will not let you go until you set me, in words, on paper.” That's more or less how it is for me but without the explosions.
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