Goodreads asked Walter Blaire:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Walter Blaire I'm working on is theory that one's calling is the activity where they don't mind reading the small print, the ingredients, the dry boring industry reports, the licensing agreements. In fact, you seek those things out and feel momentum and relief when you gather impossibly specific crumbs of new knowledge. To relax, you do it some more. I won't read 20 pages of iTunes user agreement, but I'll exploration-read about the subjunctive mood till the cows come home. Being a writer means I can wallow in my obsessions but the bills get paid so I don't feel guilty. That, plus all that other regular writer-stuff about creativity, flow, meeting new characters, carving beauty and truth out of lies, etc.

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