"I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy."

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This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.

— Said Sayrafiezadeh