Boundaries Quote by Anonymous

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

— Emma Donoghue

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of…

— Patrisse Cullors

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

— Andrej Pejic

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to…

— Yann Martel

“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

With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across the divide…

— George Saunders

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is…

— Greg Gutfeld

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

— William J. Mann

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range…

— Jessica Hagedorn

In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.

— Jess Phillips

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is…

— Arundhati Roy