Feb 15
When I encounter a character in a story, whom I have to live with for more than a certain number of pages, by St. Marx and St. Engels, I want to know where the money comes from that buys the character’s food and shelter — if the character requires any. [...] There’s no class, from the upper to the lower, that doesn’t benefit from learning to ask that question. And there’s no writer who isn’t made a more aware person by playing with the various ways of suggesting the answer — and suggesting is far more interesting than stating — in his or her texts.
Samuel R. Delany, "The Phil Leggiere Interview"
