Duty Quote by Jeanette Winterson

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that…

— Tony Kushner

I never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change.…

— Stan Lee

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 the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political writer in…

— Katie Kitamura

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

— Wole Soyinka

The work gets more political as I become older and more aware, I guess, of power and justice issues.

— Francesca Da Rimini

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

— Peter Morgan

People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm…

— Barbara Kingsolver

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

— Gore Vidal

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And…

— Ed Koch