Why I like fiction writing

'It would seem to me just as crazy to offer hard and fast rules that apply to every type of novel as it would be to walk into households around the world and insist on replacing the beautiful nuances of idiomatic speech with perfect Esperanto'
Delia Falconer 2001

They don't make Frank Zappa's anymore

Maybe it's not that strange that politicians in the 21 century find it hard to justify supporting the arts. The arts are supposed to play an important role in our democracy, but today it's purely become entertainment. And sometimes not even that.
Where are the artists who dare to provoke, who dare to have an opinion, the long lost artists with a spine. Where are the Frank Zappa's in the world of generation y?


There was a time when arts mattered, and that time is ours to take back.
Patrick White wrote in 1950:
"It was the exaltation of the average that made me panic the most"
Luckily he is not alive to see the state of the arts in 2010.

Be wise, be critical

In an era of information overload and increasing communication skills and language competence it has become more important than ever to be critical. More and more people have the ability to make madness sound sane, unfortunately. And the burden is laid upon us to decide whether it's true or not.

In the movie "Thank you for smoking" the main character Nick Naylor promotes the tobacco industry using twisted logic and research from the Academy of Tobacco studies funded by the tobacco industry. Conveniently enough, the studies show no connection between lung cancer and smoking.

Anything can be proven or unproven, anything can sound convincing and anything can be the truth.

So, be wise, be critical and most importantly, be a promiscuous reader.