Books Quote by Sally Rooney

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

— Emile Zola

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

— Thomas de Quincey

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

— Arundhati Roy

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

— Ma Jian

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

— Gao Xingjian

“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

Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.

— Olga Tokarczuk