The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.