Goodreads asked David Grant Urban:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

David Grant Urban Writing is a very selfish enterprise. You indulge your private thoughts, create worlds based in fantasy, invent alter egos and make them dance to your tunes. It's very rewarding, personally, and in the meantime your wife and loved ones are stuck with the mundane day to day tasks that make up a life. If you become successful, you are forgiven your selfishness. You reap awards and compliments and respect from those that do not know you well, and you use that to justify your work. It's not a bad life. Seriously, though, the best thing about being a writer is creating a certain magic (if you're lucky) that readers connect with. My goal as a writer is this: 50 years from now, after I'm gone and all my generation is gone too, I'd like some reader to pull my book down from some dusty shelf, skim a few pages, and then say: I think I'll read this. That's my idea of success.

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