So if songwriting is about patience, writing a book is about endurance. You don’t really need that flash of inspiration to write a book. In fact, the whole process is about as mundane as you can imagine, churning out pages made out of paragraphs made out of sentences made out of words. If inspiration comes, you don’t really know it until the book is finished. Not only that, the satisfaction of sharing it with someone is deferred for months, if not years.

