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… Lionel Shriver: ‘Few writers are willing to put themselves on the line for free speech’ | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I’m not a natural activist, and I’m reluctant to embrace this role, but I am also dismayed by how few writers with any serious reputation are willing to put themselves on the line for free speech. …  Not only do we have to preserve the right to write characters who are different from ourselves, we have to preserve the right to have characters who think things that are unacceptable.