Goodreads asked Mark Leidner:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Mark Leidner I guess the best thing is the illusion of your imaginative life mattering that it gives you. But like all illusions it eventually shatters and you're left with the wreckage of a belief system instead of beliefs. But in that way it's no different than any other profession, occupation, art, or task. You might as well ask "What's the best thing about being?" The best thing about being is the pleasure the illusion of being gives, which is also the worst thing about being, since the withdrawal symptoms once the illusion of being is gone are quite harsh. But if you survive those symptoms, the pleasure of accepting your own insignificance is fairly expansive.

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