Best Quote by Charles Stross

I don't have an opinion about whether or not politics should appear more in fiction or not, generally. I think politics are a part…

— Mary Gaitskill

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

“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

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

Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Jess Phillips

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

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

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

— Paul Bowles

A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does…

— Revilo P. Oliver

“In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little…

— John Green