Boundaries Quote by Arundhati Roy

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

— Edmund White

I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all…

— Pankaj Mishra

“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

Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek…

— Gao Xingjian

All literature is protest.

— Richard Wright

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

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Today literature must either be protest or consolation”

— Elie Wiesel

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

— Alistair MacLeod

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we…

— Reza Aslan