"It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through."

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But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.

— Dean Koontz