Goodreads asked Sophfronia Scott:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Sophfronia Scott The best way to answer this is with my note about "Artist as Seer" that I wrote for issue 33 of Ruminate Magazine. I consider myself a writer and an artist and this is what it's all about:

I’ll walk out of the house with my son—he’s 10—and say, “Wow, look at those orange-pink clouds!” Or I’ll call him to the window to show him a super bright moon. My work as an artist is this same act on a different scale. In every piece of writing I am essentially pointing out what I see in the world. "Look! I see love. And over there—that’s courage. Isn’t it beautiful? Isn’t it amazing?"

This is important because I believe as a community we require art and beauty to feed our hope, to help us see what makes life worthy when we are too busy or too tired or too frustrated to see for ourselves. I feel confident that when I mark what I see, and do it well, others are encouraged to see on their own, just as when my son says, as he did this morning, “Mama, look at those leaves! They’ve never been that red before.” My role then is to affirm and say, “Yes.”

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