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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I love factoids. It’s hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it’s stopping the character.
More Adam Braver Quotes
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Often people who already had an interest in human rights work.
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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
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I do think that has a certain subversiveness to it. Even if it’s not on a geopolitical level.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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