Adapted Quote by Edith Wharton

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not…

— Pankaj Mishra

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

I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

— Mona Simpson

Many bad books have had great influence.

— Anne Applebaum

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

— Maggie Stiefvater

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the…

— Toni Morrison

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

— James M. Cain

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

— Joseph Heller

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of…

— Edward Abbey