One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a culture, feel like politics is one sector of our lives that can feel apart from our personal lives… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.” — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right. Carefully” — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“would strap you, hands and feet, to a machine, turn a wheel to make you talk. Or even not to, just to watch you experience it. Or because there was someone visiting the court who had never gotten a chance to see the machine in action. Another one of those things that makes you think, well, okay, the end of… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share
Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in. Sometimes… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share
