Shelby Foote said, “A writer’s like anybody else except when he’s writing.” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/931/the-art-of-fiction-no-158-shelby-foote

>>Everything I have to say about the writing of history was summoned up by John Keats in ten words in a letter, more or less like a telegram put on the wire nearly two hundred years ago. He said, “A fact is not a truth until you love it.” You have to become attached to the thing you’re writing about—in other words, “love it”—for it to have any real meaning.