Controversial Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

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

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

— John Edgar Wideman

“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it…

— Walter Mosley

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically…

— Joel C. Rosenberg

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“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

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

— Paul Bowles

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent…

— Michael Ondaatje

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

— Jonathan Coe

I'm a bit skeptical about the possibilities for resistant fiction, and even more despondent over the potential for politically engaged writing to do much…

— Davis Schneiderman

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young

I never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change.…

— Stan Lee