Believe Quote by Marguerite Young

Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

“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

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

— Mona Simpson

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

— Diane Wakoski

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I…

— Jack Bowman

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative…

— Gayl Jones

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

— James M. Cain