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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Jennifer Egan On: Panic, Awe, Fetishizing Authenticity, and Our Possible AI Futures

10% Happier with Dan Harris

CHAPTER

The Joy of Writing

"I don't think I ever, or maybe 2% of the time, feel anything resembling joy when writing," he says. "When those panic attacks came, there may have been sort of a weird existential aspect to them." The author has edited hard copies by hand on an escalator and in an elevator. He's gotten off the subway and sat in a smelly, dank station just to finish his work.

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