Tim O'Brien

“Beyond anything, it seems to me, a writer performs this sitting-down act primarily in search of those rare, very intense moments of artistic pleasure that are as real in their way as the pleasures that can come from any other source — the rush of endorphins, for instance, that accompanies the making of a nice little bit of dialogue. And this isn’t to say that writing isn’t painful — and it is, most of the time — but at the same time, there is no pleasure without the pain.”
- Tim O'Brien