Goodreads asked Teresa R. Funke:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Teresa R. Funke The best thing about being a writer, for me, is the chance to always keep learning and to meet and interview such fascinating people. Most writers are generally a very curious lot. If you tell me you are a trash collector, I'm going to ask you about the weirdest thing you ever saw someone throw out. There's nothing that doesn't interest me on some level, and it's all potential material for a story. So I LOVE looking at the world through a writer's view. And I love hanging out with my writer friends, because we are all that way. But the absolute best thing about being a writer is that I get to do something I love to do. Life is too short. Find what you love and DO IT!

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