The Creative Process...

"But no matter how much the mess and distortion make you want to despair, you can't abandon work because you're chained to the bloody thing, it's absolutely woven into your soul and you know you can never rest until you've brought the truth out of all the distortion and beauty out of all the mess - but it's agony, agony, agony - while simultaneously being the most wonderful and rewarding experience in the world - and that's the creative process which so few people understand." Harriet March (a character in Susan Howatch's Absolute Truths)