Lionel Shriver says 'politically correct censorship' is damaging fiction | Books | The Guardian

Writing in March's issue of Prospect magazine, Shriver said that authors in today's "call out" culture are "contend[ing] with a torrent of dos and don'ts that bind our imaginations and make the process of writing and publishing fearful". She provoked outrage in 2016 when she said in a keynote speech at the Brisbane writers festival that she hoped "the concept of ‘cultural appropriation' is a passing fad". Almost two years later, she has now written that "preventing writers from conjuring lives different from their own would spell the end of fiction", because "if we have the right to draw on only our own experience, all that's left is memoir".