Absent Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also…

— Adrienne Rich

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around.…

— Walter Kirn

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

— Madame de Stael

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the…

— Anton Chekhov

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a…

— Vaclav Havel

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

— Wole Soyinka

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

— Aneurin Bevan

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

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case…

— Ghassan Kanafani

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social…

— Janis Ian