Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is the supreme solace.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.
Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.
Writing is not an unknown territory for me.
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.