Literature Quote by Amitava Kumar

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“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

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each…

— Arundhati Roy

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

— Gao Xingjian

In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has…

— Micah Perks

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

There's a cinema of prose and a cinema of poetry and the cinema of poetry is always involved with politics. That's because it works…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even…

— Mohsin Hamid