I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.
I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing and any other way I can.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.