Goodreads asked Margo Lane:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Margo Lane I'm an English teacher at heart, so I will of course say the thing that all English teachers tell their students, which is that we are all writers. I'm not a professional writer. I don't write full-time or anywhere near that. I find time to write when I can, but the majority of my time is taken up with teaching my high school students. I love my job more than pretty much anything, but it is incredibly time-consuming, and it can be difficult to make the time for anything outside of school. The best thing about being a writer, if I were to tell my students, would be the ability to express yourself, to see within your soul and use words to portray what you are feeling. Even if your work is fiction, there is a part of you that lives in the works that you create and that is the magic.

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