Hands Quote by David Mamet

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

— Steven Pressfield

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to…

— Mandy Patinkin

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different…

— Elif Safak

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

“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 think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all…

— Pankaj Mishra

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

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

— Frank Delaney