Goodreads asked Lorina Stephens:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Lorina Stephens There's a best thing? Sweet saints preserve us this is hard work, without glory, with little recompense for the average, done is isolation and through grim determination, in the face of enormous rejection and self-doubt. But when you're done there's that moment which usually comes years later, and you happen upon a passage which seems suddenly fresh and foreign, and you smile, in isolation, because damn that was good.

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