Goodreads asked Dick B. Long:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Dick B. Long I can be anyone I wish and I can go anywhere I wish. One day, I can be a swashbuckler in the Caribbean in the seventeen hundred’s; the next, a Marine in the Pacific during WWII. Early, in high school, I realized that through writing I could always get the girl, have the fastest horse, catch the winning touchdown, make an A in Miss Livingston’s English class. Wait! Make that a B. Let’s be realistic—Miss Livingston would never give me an A.

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