It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
“For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.”
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?”