I think this energy is the most important thing in human life. Getting it right about love, being able to love people unselfishly, is one of the highest things in human life, and it's exceedingly difficult. Being in love is often very demonic, very possessive, very violent, very destructive. I don't feel like that about writing novels. I very much enjoy writing.
Any writer has moments of despair.
There are times one finds one is producing stuff which is bad. That is terribly daunting. I keep on.