Politics Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell…

— Aravind Adiga

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

— Ismail Kadaré

“Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation in which…

— Pankaj Mishra

“An exile's only country is his country's literature.”

— Andreï Makine

“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous…

— Gordon White

“There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs…

— Woodrow Wilson

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

— Philip Pullman

“Was there really something to the obsolete idea of a national character? Some countries just changed tyrants, without changing anything else.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“There is no perfect government except in textbooks.”

— Jayson Lusk

“The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base…

— Jarod Kintz