You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
It is difficult not to write satire.
I like to write a lot of satire.
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
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