Fictions Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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 politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense”

— William Bolitho

“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.”

— DENNIS SEDDON

“There is an art, a deeply political art, of taking circumstances as they arise and attributing them to your side or the opposition, in…

— Anna Funder

“If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but…

— Richard Kearney

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

“The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than…

— Douglas Coupland

“Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.”

— Orrin Woodward

“This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of art will…

— Elizabeth Jenkins

“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best…

— Eudora Welty

“One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.”

— Bruce Sterling