Writing Is the Worst Thing in the World

In retrospect, which is always a little bit easier, do you look back at certainly the pickling experience and maybe even the Benedetta experience and say, wow, I'm really glad that that didn't happen in retrospect? "Oh, absolutely. Now knowing what I know, I'm just like, oh, making a book is the truly the worst thing in the world. It's the hardest thing in the World," she says.