Anyway–because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next–and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis–at any time of night or day.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Literary critics often refer to the “anything you put in your head” attitude of writers. Since writers are free to create their own worlds, they are free to choose their own characters, plots, settings, and themes. This is why writers are able to put almost anything in their books.

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

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