Body Quote by Arundhati Roy

I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a novel that…

— Francisco Goldman

Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.

— Olga Tokarczuk

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things.…

— Robert Greene

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

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do…

— Jen Lancaster

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be…

— Ruth Ozeki

I do write, but for now I am keeping it all in the desk drawer. I have always written. The only book that I…

— Emmanuel Macron

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that…

— Zadie Smith

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

— Dean Koontz

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not…

— Pankaj Mishra