From a book on writing ...
"Your three-year-old and your work in progress teach you to give. They teach you to get out of yourself and become a person for someone else. This is probably the secret to happiness. So, that's one reason to write. Your child and your work hold you hostage, suck you dry, ruin your sleep, mess with your head, treat you like dirt, and then you discover that they've given you that gold nugget you were looking for all along." -- Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird