​What DO I enjoy? Not staying in hotels, not gluttony, not parties, not flattery, not multiple glasses of white wine. What I seem to want to do – “enjoy” is the wrong word here – is not to have experiences but to think and tell about them. I’m always looking for excuses to avoid sitting down at my desk to write, but I “enjoy” my life only to the extent that even as I’m living it, I’m also writing it in my mind.
Emily Fox Gordon, Book of Days