Books Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics…

— Ernest Hemingway

The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos.

— Olga Tokarczuk

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

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength…

— Miguel Syjuco

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I really do not take much interest in forming an opinion on anything political because I am not inclined to that.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

— Jess Phillips

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with politics in…

— Elena Poniatowska

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social…

— Janis Ian

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

— John Grisham