Part of it is the decision to keep things where you want to train the spotlight. For me, it’s the personal side. I always ask, How does the person inside the character relate to this?

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Part of it is the decision to keep things where you want to train the spotlight. For me, it’s the personal side. I always ask, How does the person inside the character relate to this?

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I love factoids. It’s hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it’s stopping the character.

ADAM BRAVER

I love factoids. It’s hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it’s stopping the character.
ADAM BRAVER

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A symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change.

ADAM BRAVER

A symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change.
ADAM BRAVER

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Part of it is the decision to keep things where you want to train the spotlight. For me, it’s the personal side. I always ask, How does the person inside the character relate to this?

ADAM BRAVER

Part of it is the decision to keep things where you want to train the spotlight. For me, it’s the personal side. I always ask, How does the person inside the character relate to this?
ADAM BRAVER

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Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It’s a curious thing.

ADAM BRAVER

Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It’s a curious thing.
ADAM BRAVER

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And be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it’s hard to tell.

ADAM BRAVER

And be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it’s hard to tell.
ADAM BRAVER

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The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island

ADAM BRAVER

The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island
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I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked.

ADAM BRAVER

I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked.
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My sense, and I’m sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that.

ADAM BRAVER

My sense, and I’m sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that.
ADAM BRAVER

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What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.

ADAM BRAVER

What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.
ADAM BRAVER

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I’m really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in that after a while.

ADAM BRAVER

I’m really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in that after a while.
ADAM BRAVER

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Often people who already had an interest in human rights work.

ADAM BRAVER

Often people who already had an interest in human rights work.
ADAM BRAVER

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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

ADAM BRAVER

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
ADAM BRAVER

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If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world – even if it is about the self, or love, or how human beings relate

ADAM BRAVER

If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world – even if it is about the self, or love, or how human beings relate
ADAM BRAVER

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I do think that has a certain subversiveness to it. Even if it’s not on a geopolitical level.

ADAM BRAVER

I do think that has a certain subversiveness to it. Even if it’s not on a geopolitical level.
ADAM BRAVER

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What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind

ADAM BRAVER

What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind
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