Goodreads asked Adriano Bulla:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Adriano Bulla The best thing is seeing your children grow, become independent, and fly the nest...other people call them their books, but I swear they are like children for me, and I believe from many other writers. Maybe because I will never have a child of my own (and no child deserves such a deranged parent as myself, so, it all adds up), or maybe because writing is a creative process, I very much feel like writing a poem, a story, a novel (I haven't tried a play yet) is a bit like giving birth...from conception, the moment you feel the spark of life cross your heart and shine like a new, independent thought or emotion inside of you, to the painful (and never one hundred percent certain of success) and long period of gestation, when you feed your child inside of you, knowing it is growing, feeding off your experience, your skills, but also your love, to the moment it takes it's first breath, that is possibly the most incredible part of the life of a writer...

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