For writers who are struggling with their work today:
"I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids," Darwin wrote, "and today I hate them worse than everything." https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/18/163181524/charles-darwin-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day
@estherschindler That reminds me of what the famous portrait painter John Singer Sargent said about painting portraits:
"I abhor and abjure them and hope to never do another, especially of the Upper Classes.”