Advocacy has an agenda

All Writing Has Some Advocacy

"As if we go to the page as lobotomized creatures who abandon all other issues in their lives to be writers.  No, I think all writing has some advocacy in it.  All the time."

Advocacy is a challenge

"Advocacy is a challenge because it is—not because it might pervert writing, any more than love or sex or hope might pervert writing."

The World They Create

"The question is always how to be good, I think, first.  And then the politics of the person and the world they create influence the views of the readers, if they are lucky."

Writing That Really Matters

Spontaneity Is the Art

"If something happens in those spontaneous moments of writing that's different than my outline, I go with the spontaneity, and change the outline to suit it.  Because the spontaneity, that's the art.  My intentions are the craft, right?  That's what I'm trying to do.  But what is being done is where the magic is."