Accommodate Quote by Pankaj Mishra

I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine…

— Pankaj Mishra

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little…

— John Green

Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.…

— Xiaolu Guo

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

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

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do…

— Jen Lancaster

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly…

— Ben Lerner

“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

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic…

— Alain de Botton