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Goodreads asked Chris Pavone:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Chris Pavone There are very few professions where you’re completely in control of what you produce—from the big-picture structure of years’ worth of work down to every little individual decision about vocabulary choices and punctuation. I think every novelist owes it to our readers to solicit editorial suggestions from a variety of voices, but all the final choices are still ultimately the writer’s. That’s a remarkable freedom, one that defines not only how I feel about my work, and how I spend my days, but one that informs my whole life. It’s a freedom for which I feel grateful every day.
Chris Pavone
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