Character Quote by Jen Lancaster

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to…

— Mandy Patinkin

“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

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't…

— David Hare

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 never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more…

— David Brooks

A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character,…

— Caryl Phillips

Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.

— Mason Cooley

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

— Ana Kasparian

I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters into a…

— Curtis Sittenfeld