Political change Quote by Erica R. Meiners

“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

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“Literature is not at the service of the government; on the contrary, governments should do everything in their power to create a favourable climate…

— Murong Xuecun

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my…

— Miguel Syjuco

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah

“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and…

— John Steinbeck

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an…

— Rebecca West

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of…

— George Orwell