Author Quote by Ruth Ozeki

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

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically…

— China Mieville

In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has…

— Micah Perks

“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

I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and…

— Arundhati Roy

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and…

— Robert Greene

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on…

— Khaled Hosseini

I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely…

— Andrea Dworkin

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

— Edith Wharton