How much they love to identify with their BMWs, their special film culture, their knowledge that they re trendsetters, manipulators. They wallow in their guilt and stultified petty, lying morality. Writers shouldn t be telling people how to live. We re just paid more, and we sell our souls more readily. You want to see someone talented, watch a really good machinist.
Writers are storytellers at best.
We sit around the campfire and tell of the feats, glories, and sorrows of others. That s all. We have no right to judge. Judgment undoes us all. We become smaller by it.