Dave Eggers

Yeah.

It wasn't that way.

I used to write in the middle of the night because I was working during the day.

But these days, because I can do just that and I'm not needed...

and my kids are older and all that stuff.

Yeah, it feels...

beyond luxurious.

You feel crazy guilt sometimes.

The rest of that night is euphoric.

You rush to work the next day.

Or if you show something to a trusted reader and they're like, this is really coming together, then you're just, that's jet fuel, you know?

And that's another reason why you include people.

Because if they get excited, that redoubles your own

energy, your dedication, your confidence in it.

Famously, Ray Bradbury down here in LA, you know how he finished Fahrenheit 451?

He was broke and he had a family and he had some job, but they had public typewriters at the LA Public Library in the basement, I think.

10 cents for an hour.

And he had just enough to like put in two hours a day maybe of typewriter time.

And because he was on the clock and he was broke, he wrote that thing in like two weeks, you know?

Wow.