A book as dogma

[Leanne]

Why is trust the important thing? You're lying to them in what you write, because you're manufacturing a reality that you're not even sure exists. They will lie when they read it, because they don't want you to think that they believe what you've written, or that you're more important as a writer than they are as readers. But you can negotiate. You can take the intersections of what you believe, what they believe and what you both want to believe, and build something that nobody believes but people can swallow. That's if you want to be a political success. If you want to be a writer -- if you already are a writer but want to be a writer with more readers -- then let them take it as an enema. That way they get to hit the g-spot on the way in.