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We need to be inspired and we need to inspire. And fiction offers the chance to explore things deeply in ways that other mediums can't.

— Margaret Killjoy Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (2009)

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While so much of our other work—theory and direct action protest alike—presents answers to the world, fiction presents questions.

Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (2009)

I don’t believe the places of friction for a reader should be in the prose. I believe they should be in the ideas that are being presented instead.

There’s no other issue more pressing for everyone alive enough to read these words than climate change. Which is saying something, because we’ve also got a fascism problem — but they’re not unrelated problems.

(about anarchists) we've got a wonderful critique of failure: if you don't fail from time to time, you're not setting your goals high enough.

Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (2009)

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