Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.

Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.