Chekhov Quote by Adam Hochschild

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

— John Cameron Mitchell

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

— William Hazlitt

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative…

— Gayl Jones

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk…

— Anonymous

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

— Mickey Spillane

I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all…

— Pankaj Mishra

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major…

— F. R. Leavis

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler