Goodreads asked Richard Milner:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Richard Milner Freedom. Freedom of the word - an absolute freedom of expression unique to language. Writing is a fusion of the heart and mind, a creative process filtered through an architectural lens. Through the pen (or keyboard), entire worlds rise and fall, live and die, as real to readers as the reality we live within. Writing is a gift. When writing, I have not only the time to structure complex thoughts and feelings, but the chance to truly connect to others. Through stories, I can reach a hand back through millennia, where our forebears told myths and tales to carry knowledge and wisdom through generation after generation. I feel I have an obligation when writing - an obligation to be reverent to our collective storytelling past, and to make good on the opportunities of the present.

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