Books Quote by LeVar Burton

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each…

— Arundhati Roy

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.

— Andrew O'Hagan

I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our world, and…

— Simon Kinberg

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius…

— Washington Irving

Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

— Arundhati Roy

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out…

— Rudolf Rocker

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

— Holly Near

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

— Robert Aris Willmott