Book Quote by Abdellah Taia

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are…

— Richard Powers

“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.”

— Christopher Bram

What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically…

— China Mieville

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

— Anonymous

I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it…

— Frederick Douglass

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

— Toni Morrison

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both,…

— Linda Sue Park

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be…

— Ruth Ozeki

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

— Grace Lee Boggs

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or…

— Aleksandar Hemon

It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has…

— Albert Camus