I don’t believe in writer’s block. I only believe in fear. And you can be afraid and still write something. No one has to read it, though when you’re done, you might want them to. One of the epigraphs of my second book—though it could be an epigraph for my life—is a quote from the British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott: “It is joy to be hidden and disaster not to be found.”