Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
“I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.”
“And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.”