Empathy Quote by Molly Ivins

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

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social…

— Janis Ian

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk…

— Anonymous

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 never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change.…

— Stan Lee

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

— Philippe Sollers

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

— Robert Harris

“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

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

— Jess Phillips

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

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

I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political writer in…

— Katie Kitamura