“No offense but maybe if you want to get ahead you should keep your politics to yourself and just you know write books.”
You’re entirely right, I could keep my mouth shut and probably do very well out of it. But any world where I have to keep my mouth shut and turn away from the suffering and persecution of others is not a world I want to do well in.
I know you think you’re probably helping, and are possibly even coming from a place of concern, but this is my choice to make. And if it turns out this bed I’ve dug is a
grave, then buddy I’ll damn well die in it. But not before I do
everything possible within my power the take the bastards with me.
Authors are just as entitled as any other citizen to form and voice their own opinions.