We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.

I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.

Russell Smith Quotes