Goodreads asked Charles Gull:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Charles Gull Everyone is unique even, or perhaps especially, writers.

For me, the greatest pleasure comes long after my own involvement. It is about the response of the reader.

If a top Chef writes a book of baking recipies, it is not the book that is important, it is all the cooks that bake the cakes. They don't want to hear feedback like 'Your book is very well written and the graphics are clear.", they want to hear "I baked your marmalade sponge cakes as a Birthday suprise and everyone loved it!"

All books are recipe books.

Authors are the Chefs and the readers are the cooks. The magic of story telling doesn't happen when we write. It happens when others read. It is the magic of how utterly diverse people, who might first read the story centuries after it was written, can be instantly transported to exactly the world we imagined.

The best thing about being a writer is when I hear "I read your story and suddenly I was there! Right there, in the middle of everything that was happening!". This is when I let myself smile in satisfaction, knowing that I wrote a great recipe.

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