If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.
Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.
If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.
I have to go make books. Sorry about that.