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Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.
Politicians differ in their views whether Russia or Islamic State is a bigger menace, and I personally think that Islamic State is the bigger threat.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.
