Democratic Quote by Sarah MacLean

“If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes. She sighed again with…

— Sarah MacLean

“Ms. Taylor's writing style is clear, without frills, and so streamlined that her story flows and flows and flows, without taking a break, to…

— Vicki M. Taylor

“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

“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and…

— Azar Nafisi

The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should…

— Richard Rodriguez

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

— William Gibson

There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives.

— Lynn Nottage

“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

Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or…

— Leni Zumas

“The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from…

— Thomas Gately Briody

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear &…

— Shomprakash Sinha Roy