Arnon Grünberg. Phantom pain (№ 253906)

Temptation is the prelude of sadness. The one who can't resist the temptation, reminds the writer that writes ten pages of the book, ten brilliant pages, and then takes up a new book again and writes no more than ten pages. So he writes the beginning of dozens, maybe hundreds of books, but only the beginning, because it is afraid that then he will be painful and difficult.