Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

When I read, I'm purely a reader

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.