Citizens Quote by Oliver Stone

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

— Oliver Stone

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

— Tim Robbins

If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer. Some politics…

— Junot Diaz

My issue with all sort of social justice stuff and leftie stuff, and I would put myself on a social justice leftie side, is…

— Limmy

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

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion…

— George Saunders

I'm a dramatist.

— Richard LaGravenese

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be…

— Thornton Wilder

I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just…

— Larry Wilmore

The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with people with…

— Barney Frank

For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should you get…

— Lionel Shriver