if I had been, say, a French writer, I would have been free to write whatever I wished, which would have been writing of an imaginative sort. But in … - Elena Poniatowska

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if I had been, say, a French writer, I would have been free to write whatever I wished, which would have been writing of an imaginative sort. But in Mexico, because of the suffering that is the result of centuries of corruption, there is a moral obligation to write of this. I could not ignore it, and, because I have become known for it and have refined my ability to write this way through practice, it became my principal work.