Asking Quote by Daniel Handler

I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first…

— Peter Gould

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and…

— Robert Greene

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

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted…

— Richard Bausch

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

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

I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your…

— Andrew Breitbart

“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

“I’ll use this book as an example. Because I am writing a book that attacks the nonsensical commentaries of our current moral guardians, busybodies,…

— Xavier Lastra

Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own…

— Wole Soyinka

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to…

— Gunter Grass

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit…

— Leslie Banks