Writer's Funniest Moment

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I think what is most important for a storyteller, or an author, or a writer is that positive feedback that you get from the lives that you touch with your story. I will get back to when we debuted Charlie's Treasures at the LA Times festival of books. There was a young girl who would come by to look at the book. She read it and she left and she came back and she asked how much it was and I told her and she left and she came back. She did this three or four times during the day and I was just about to give her a copy of it because that's what to me was important is people would share the book. She was from Eastern Europe and she finally said " you know I went to a friend of mine and I borrowed the money and I came back and I want to buy your book because it reminds me of home". And, it's moments like that that you when you write, it's moments like that that far overshadow everything. Everything that you've done, all the trials and tribulations that you went through to get to that point as an author, as a storyteller, and as a writer, that's what you look for. That's what you hope for is to have a handful of those events that you can say "it doesn't matter what else happens in the world, somebody was enjoyed what I did, somebody was touched by the words that I wrote, the story that I told". That is the most rewarding and most enjoyable part of being a writer.

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