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Goodreads asked Benjamin Fortier:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Benjamin Fortier My imagination can be a place of great power, wisdom, and bliss. It can also be a place of great suffering, fear, and pain. These extremes cannot exist without one another, and writing allows me to find a place for them to live in harmony. Poetry in particular allows me to find balance while confronting my greatest fears and pleasures from the physical world. Fiction allows me to re-tell stories and create characters that I would love (or hate) to be, meet, or be related to.

The best thing about being a writer is that you're only limited to the depths of your imagination, and I can't say I've ever met anyone that didn't have a vast imagination.

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