A Quote About Writing, part I

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
— Philip Roth

Phil Roth in 1968, being cooler than anybody in 2016. 

Philip Roth (as read up there, and seen to your right) said that. Or wrote it. I have no idea. I don't know when, why, or how he did anything with that quote.

However, Roth is hitting quite a good point. Fiction is not supposed to be reminding you of and/or telling you what to do in the real world. It is supposed to be a safe haven. 

An escape, if you will. Nobody wants to read about their actual problems. They want to get away from them. I thank Philip Roth for saying this, and telling us what fiction is supposed to be.