If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.
I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.
As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
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