Goodreads asked Susan Rivers:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Susan Rivers The most obvious benefit of being a writer is having a strong identity. Jobs come and go for writers, as do the places where we live, work and raise our children. Writing isn't a terribly lucrative profession for the most part, and financial stress can often force us to question our choices. But the one thing that doesn't change for me in good times or bad, whether I'm trying to survive in Northern California or North Carolina, is my very clear belief that I was put here to write and writing is what I must do. I have moments of self-doubt, of course, when I wonder if I'm doing the best writing I possibly can, but I never doubt that writing is who I am. It's the whole megillah.

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