Goodreads asked Deborah L. Fruchey:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Deborah L. Fruchey The best thing about being a writer is being allowed to play in your mind...to be able to say "I'm working" when it looks to everybody like you are staring off in space...writing as a career gives validation to a lot of intangible things that are undervalued in our culture.

There is almost no validity given in our culture to imagination, creativity, play (unless it is extreme play, as in extreme sports, or leads immediately to money). There is little validation given to quiet thought that yields spiritual and emotional gold. My very favorite part of the writing process are these parts: when you are dreaming a world and its people into being, and pictures float through your head, and anything is possible. It is awesome that there is still respect in our society for people who do this, even though there is often little financial support.

My other favorite part, besides the writing itself (which is an enormous high as well as enormous work), is when I hear back from readers. Knowing that I touched someone is worth every bit of the effort. If somehow, despite all the words and processes and computers and printers that lie between us, I managed to reach someone's heart or mind, then my whole life's work is fulfilled.My favorite parts are the dreaming and the touching.

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