Goodreads asked Matt Posner:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Matt Posner I can write books I want to read that no one else has written. That's overall the best thing.

I don't have anxiety about necessary writing tasks either. I can knock out in minutes projects that others sweat over for a long time.

There's no glamour overall in being the kind of writer I am -- I'm no Salman Rushdie, rolling in cash and getting drunk on fancy wine with other glittering literati and accepting awards with false humility. I work for a living -- as a teacher -- and I feel more like a blue-collar person despite being an intellectual.

I don't have a choice about being a writer. I just can't stop doing it. It's too basic to my identity, and more's the pity.

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