It's Not Just the Satisfaction of Being Published

You know what it means – you’re a writer and you understand it. It’s not just “the satisfaction of being published.” Great God! It’s the satisfaction of getting it out, or having that, so far as you’re concerned, gone through with it! That good or ill, for better or for worse, it’s over, done with, finished, out of your life forever and that, come what may, you can at least, as far as this thing is concerned, get the merciful damned easement of oblivion and forgetfulness.

TOM WOLFE