American gods Quote by Neil Gaiman

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around.…

— Walter Kirn

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

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write…

— Neil Gaiman

“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

People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the…

— Zephyr Teachout

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

— Glenn Ligon

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

— Charles Horton Cooley

I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do…

— Justin Broadrick

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

— Jonathan Coe

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