Goodreads asked Tot Taylor:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Tot Taylor There isn't very much good about being a writer. It's a lot of hard work and a lot of hours. More and more hours. It's a lot of sitting - unless you're speaking into a dictaphone. I did a bit of that too. I also acted out the moment in the book - when they were in the kitchen, which they were a lot, and I did some drawings of the place, the fame, the house, the cliff, Black Cliff, the music-studio, the computers etc.
Then after it all - when you actually get this thing finished - in my case after 10-12 years, you may not even have anything. You don't really know. Just like when you complete a film. You've done all the stuff but you just don't know. Is it good? Is it right? Film directors and film producers don't know and neither do the actors and actresses and all the tech people. They just have to show it to the audience. Then they know!
With a novel it's just you. And... some of that 'knowing' is in the hands of that very big looming figure - The Reader. Hopefully your 'friend'. I realised when I was writing 'John Nightly' that I would be in a better place if I could be 'reading' the book at the same time as I was 'writing' it. (If indeed it was me that was actually writing it - I'm not sure about that either). But when I hit that frame of mind - put myself in that mode - I'm writing the words on the page, but I don't know what they are. They're just coming. They're not planned in my brain. They 'appear' - as in when you're reading. Then the experience became better, softer, and also the actual completed 'writing' was better.
After that, book completed, I guess the glib answer would be...
To be read - then to be re-read.
Thank you for asking...

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