Goodreads asked Lisa Graham:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Lisa Graham Creating. With writing, like many other other arts, you start with almost nothing at all. You have just your own imagination, pen and paper, your laptop or phone. You end up with a world you’ve created, and people who live in it, people you know inside out. The process of shaping this world and these people can be a wonderful immersion in places you love, ideas which fascinate you, or issues you’re passionate about. For the time that you’re writing you escape from your day to day concerns, and when you return to them you often have a different perspective. As you describe places and people, you learn to look and think closely about them, and as you plot themes and storylines, you reflect on what’s important to you, what you want to say beneath your story. On top of all that, of course, if you’re writing you must be someone who loves reading too. The idea of capturing a reader’s imagination and bringing them even a fraction of the joy that some of your favourite stories have brought you is a wonderful thing to aim for.

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