I am Quote by Lynn Nottage

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views,…

— Manuel Puig

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone…

— Tony Kushner

“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

I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays.

— Lynn Nottage

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

— Suzanne Vega

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

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman,…

— Maria Teresa Horta

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My…

— Harold Pinter

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

— Jane Campion

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see…

— Toni Morrison

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

“Strive for political ideaology but do not hinder progress in the name of your ideology. That would simply be selfish.”

— Tim J. Brooks