Political Quote by Nick Laird

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

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

— Philippe Sollers

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

— Boris Johnson

Writing is a political instrument.

— James A. Baldwin

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different…

— Errol Morris

“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it…

— Walter Mosley

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but…

— Donald E. Westlake

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the…

— George Orwell

I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen to paper…

— Nick Laird