United Liberty

Wow, I never realized how much I have in common with Christopher Hitchens. I also wanted to be an actor (or an artist) as a child but ended up tossing that aside. I took Drama classes in high school but writing quickly overtook my life, becoming my primary focus above girls, school, music and exercise.

Writing chooses you. A writer has an affinity for the written word and actually gets pleasure out of simply reading and even more pleasure out of reading his own finished work. He reads so much that writing comes about naturally, as he has read nearly as (and sometimes just as) frequently as he speaks.

It’s somewhat surprising that Hitchens suggested so many novels, being a man who shaped his career on writing non-fiction. It’s also worth noting that he accidentally makes the same case that many make for theism, which is that men create art so beautiful that it seems beyond the capabilities of simple human beings. Maybe Hitchens will have to re-evaluate his thesis.