Believe Quote by Gayl Jones

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

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with…

— Orhan Pamuk

“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

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he…

— Gore Vidal

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

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society,…

— Thomas Mallon

There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour…

— Tony Kushner

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength…

— Miguel Syjuco

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

— Gao Xingjian