Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.
Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.
Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.
A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.