I haven't read the author. Is it necessary to establish yourself as a critical, independent thinker to be a novelist? Tolstoy's ideas were often silly, but he w

I haven't read the author. Is it necessary to establish yourself as a critical, independent thinker to be a novelist? Tolstoy's ideas were often silly, but he was a tremendous novelist. As for uncancelable, what does that even mean? That the idle and excitable will quit barking at you on Twitter? If it just means you won't care, why bother with the establishment bit.