Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.
I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
You should not have assault rifles in your home.
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.