Misery

by Stephen King

‘When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always, the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a blank wall. As always, the marvellous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun.

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery. – Montaigne

If a book remained roadblocked long enough, it began to decay, to fall apart; all the little tricks and illusions started to show.