“Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.” CourageWritersCommodity Book:Dangerous Visions Source: Dangerous Visions
“Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.” WritingStorytellingWriters Book:Slippage: Previously Precariously Poised, Uncollected Stories Source: Slippage: Previously Precariously Poised, Uncollected Stories