Roderick T. Macdonald
The best single thing?
Getting to live a life of the mind, to think and create all at once. To set yourself difficult goals and problems, and have the immense satisfaction of reaching those goals and solving those problems. Writing can be intellectually and emotionally stimulating and satisfying, and can provide some very significant moments of pleasure when things go right, and a sense of lasting contentment when all the pieces are put together and you feel you have done good work.
Doubts will always exist, but the moments of joy, certainty and exhilaration are worth it, and blow those pesky doubts out of the water.
That, I think, is the best thing about being a writer.
Getting to live a life of the mind, to think and create all at once. To set yourself difficult goals and problems, and have the immense satisfaction of reaching those goals and solving those problems. Writing can be intellectually and emotionally stimulating and satisfying, and can provide some very significant moments of pleasure when things go right, and a sense of lasting contentment when all the pieces are put together and you feel you have done good work.
Doubts will always exist, but the moments of joy, certainty and exhilaration are worth it, and blow those pesky doubts out of the water.
That, I think, is the best thing about being a writer.
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