One of the things people often assume about writers is that they have it all figured out and are thus publishing their polished pearls of wisdom for everyone to marvel and enrich themselves. Not true...
"Don't think that the person who is trying to comfort you now lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes give you much pleasure. His life has much trouble and sadness, and remains far behind yours. If it were otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words."
--Letter Eight in Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke in Borgeby gard, Fladie, Sweden
August 12, 1904
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
4:20:07 PM 
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