Annoying Quote by Jen Lancaster

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 don't have an opinion about whether or not politics should appear more in fiction or not, generally. I think politics are a part…

— Mary Gaitskill

“I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis than a…

— Louis Tobback

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

Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.…

— Xiaolu Guo

“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

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be…

— Ruth Ozeki

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

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Orhan Pamuk

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of…

— Charles Stross