Journal entry from 2009 about the province of the fiction writer

I found this in my journal from 2009. I think I better place a copyright warning here as I can’t be totally sure that I wrote it myself or obtained it from a source unknown.

“It is not the province of the fiction writer to extol the virtues or lambaste the vices of a particular culture or society, but rather to allow the story to speak to the reader unbridled, giving them the opportunity to make up their own minds. In short: it is to ask questions, not answer them.”

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