The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
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