A brilliant exhibition at the Tate Moern inspired me to google 'artists relationship with society'. I came across this:

'Woolf's artist-figures are increasingly outsiders, reflecting her growing preference for artistic anonymity and her evolving political consciousness, which privileges outsider status for what she believes to be its more objective view of society.'

An extreme view, perhaps, but a TV interview with Sophie Kinsella yesterday prompted me to think some writers these days write whatever our materialistic consumer society dictates.

I wonder how WW writers see their relationship with society? Are they tortured geniuses (or even genii), out of step with the zeitgeist, or just 'laptops for hire'?

Sheila