Communist Quote by Leonid Brezhnev

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

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they…

— Arundhati Roy

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work.…

— Katharine Viner

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written…

— Wole Soyinka

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

— Sela Ward

A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to.…

— Dave Barry

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party.…

— Anne Roiphe