My book collection is 5 shopping bags lighter after a few trips to the Book Corner, a Book-Trader-like store next to the main branch of the no-longer-troubled Free Library of Philadelphia. So I picked up one of the dozen unread books to start clearing the backlog and came across this must-share quote in the first few pages:
Writing this way is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird