Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.