Goodreads asked Phin Hall:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Phin Hall There are so many perks to being a writer. You can gaze into space for hours and, if challenged, explain you're busy working through a plot line. You can set up your laptop or notebook in the cafe or the pub, or even just in bed - you can write from anywhere. You can tell people you're a writer and sound more interesting than you actually are. You can swan around all day doing nothing - have a bath, watch a film, look at a corner - then cram in the day's writing work between 10pm and 2am, when everyone else is asleep.

But the best thing? That's got to be the escape it provides into a world that no one else has visited. When you write fiction, no matter how close to reality it is, you are creating a world that does not exists - a parallel universe, if you like, populated by the characters in your head and yourself as the only observer.
And if I can pass just a little of that escape on to others who read my books, I'm a happy man.

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