"It’s only recently that I’ve come to understand that writers are NOT marginal to our..."

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It’s only recently that I’ve come to understand that writers are NOT marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do ALL our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

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I think it’s a beginning for authors to acknowledge that they ARE myth-makers and that if they ARE widely read, will have an influence that will last for many years— I don’t think that there’s a strong awareness of that now, and we have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

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- A rare 1974 interview with Kurt Vonnegut, touching on some oh-so-timely issues. (via explore-blog)