“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”
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“She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.”
“You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how to write a novel. But what you know is the novel you just wrote. You don't have the slightest notion how to write the one you're going to do next.”
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.”
“You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.”