Goodreads asked Shelley Schanfield:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Shelley Schanfield I can't remember who said that being a writer is great because you can go to work in your pajamas. That's certainly a good thing about being a writer.

There's also the great feeling of nailing a particular scene or bit of dialog, or writing a single sentence that speaks volumes.

Solitude can be wonderful, too. What I find most rewarding is being awake very early in the morning—1 or 2 a.m.—and sitting down to work. That stillness and quiet frees me to write what I sometimes can't bear to put into words in the daylight, whether it's filled with joy or anguish or terror. Kafka said: "Writing means revealing oneself to excess...that is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, there can never be enough silence around one...why even night is not night enough."

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