Ability Quote by Jimmy Breslin

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

— Zephyr Teachout

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

— Bill Pullman

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

In a time of fractured politics, our need for unifying cultural events is more acute, and particularly our need for creators who do not…

— Ben Domenech

Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a system, an institution, that still holds tremendous power over whose voices…

— Marjorie Liu

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the…

— Greg Nickels

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

— Joyce Carol Oates

What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real…

— Salman Rushdie