Gun Quote by Stendhal

“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

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

— Stendhal

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

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

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah

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

In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.

— Jess Phillips

There's a cinema of prose and a cinema of poetry and the cinema of poetry is always involved with politics. That's because it works…

— Alice Rohrwacher