Writing is a political instrument.

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

— Donald Tusk

The GFTUK is a powerful political instrument for training its members, including the working class, into Kimilsungists-Kimjongilists with unfailing loyalty to the Party and…

— Kim Jong-un

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

— Aldous Huxley

When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different…

— Elif Safak

“I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or pirates. But…

— Eduardo Galeano

I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen to paper…

— Nick Laird

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a…

— Anonymous

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer…

— E. B. White

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume…

— John Podhoretz

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no…

— Dinty W. Moore

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

— Bob Woodward

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a…

— Philippe Falardeau

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

— Toby Young