Art Quote by Michael Wolff

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have…

— Billy Bragg

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

Writing is a political instrument.

— James A. Baldwin

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

The politics of language and the politics of writing really got to me. I've heard this phrase more than once now: this idea of…

— Truong Tran

You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or…

— Sally Rooney

There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour…

— Tony Kushner

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

— Peter Morgan

“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.”

— Robert Lane Greene

Writing is a form of activism.

— Angie Thomas

Many novelists say, "I'm not a political novelist" - myself included. That's a standard, even a default position. Whereas that divide between art and…

— Katie Kitamura

“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language precisely, whereas…

— Vern Rutsala