I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.
Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs.
It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film.
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
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