“The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.”
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
