When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
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