Books Quote by Ismail Kadaré

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

— Philip Pullman

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

— Heinrich Boll

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

— Ai Weiwei

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the…

— Mario Benedetti

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

— Junot Diaz

“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear &…

— Shomprakash Sinha Roy

“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but…

— John Steinbeck

We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation in which…

— Pankaj Mishra

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

— Ma Jian

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

— George Orwell