Compatible Quote by David Hare

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

— Salman Rushdie

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk…

— Anonymous

Politicians are better liars than writers.

— Shan Sa

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

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which…

— Victoria Laurie

“Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe. Their factoids…

— Erik Pevernagie

A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A…

— Gunter Grass

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers…

— Zadie Smith

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