"You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time. That can be pleasurable, but only if the material you write is good. If it’s not, you’re filled with self-loathing."
Garrison Keillor interviewed by George Plimpton, 1995
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1551/the-art-of-humor-no-2-garrison-keillor