Quote from : Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories Book

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the .