Authors may not be as tough as some of their characters or indeed the subject matter of what they choose to report.
For some reason, be it vocation or otherwise it was their calling in life and how often do we see them assassinated incarcerated or simply silenced by editors.
Taken off the payroll for telling us what we are not supposed to hear, then some of us forget what it was and who it was that said it.
So, can you remind me again, why is Julian Assange locked up in the writersblock@1.belmarshprison ?