“I think the dream is that you make it look effortless, right? But I am certainly not a writer who writes effortlessly. I delete tens, if not hundreds of thousands of words for every book that I write, partly because I am a writer who learns through writing. I think this frustrates me about myself and I’ve had to sort of come to accept it, that I can’t always go in knowing what I’m doing and sometimes it’s better not to try because I’m just wasting time.” - Beth O’Leary