"Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people."

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It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.

— Alexander Chee