Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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.
I tell people, 'You can do this.' And they write back and say, 'You were right. I can do this. And now I believe I can do anything.'
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
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