Fiction is socially meaningful.
I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.
You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better.
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.