Goodreads asked Caroline Allen:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Caroline Allen You discover so many hidden treasures about yourself, your beliefs and the world. I often create characters who teach me so much. In AIR, I created Usui, a Jesuit missionary in Tokyo, and this set me on a path of research about Japanese religion and spirituality that was so profoundly edifying.

I'll often write some deep truth, and stop, look at it, and feel emotional. "That is truly what I believe." To be able to speak your deepest truth in the world -- what better career could there be?

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