Ability Quote by Miguel Syjuco

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing…

— Mohsin Hamid

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society,…

— Thomas Mallon

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

— Boris Johnson

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or…

— Aleksandar Hemon

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to…

— E. B. White

Writing is a political instrument.

— James A. Baldwin

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem…

— Wole Soyinka

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

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

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

— Paul Theroux