From 2009:
Read the whole thing here.No matter how you think you feel about a book that you’ve written, your feelings are guaranteed to change when you see your treasured words set in cold type for the first time. All at once the umbilical cord that ties you to your creation is severed and you view the book as it is, not as you imagine it. It’s a near-indescribable sensation, a head-spinning mixture of pleasure and fear….