I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
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I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.
Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.
And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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