I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.
Terrorism has come to publishing. It is a grave concern when criticism is turned to mortal threats.
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.
I want to write for history, not for the moment.
The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
I am never going to write for the sake of writing.