Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction Video on TED.com
Paraphrasing :
''The most dangerous thing of our modern world are the closed communities of like-minded people... fiction in part is able to move between those barriers and reduce that threat' not by reading other people's fiction so much as in the act of trying to write from another person's point of view.
''...She suggested, 'I feel therefore I am free. I think it was a wonderful paradigm shift. But why do we teach our creative writing students the very first thing, 'write what you know'? That is not the right way to start at all. Immaginative literature is not about writing who we are, or what we know, or what our identity is about. We should teach young people and ourselves, to expand our hearts and write what we can feel. We should get out of our cultural ghetto and move to the next one, and the next.''
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