Absurd Quote by Walter Lippmann

“All writing is rubbish. People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going on in…

— Antonin Artaud

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of them. The…

— George Orwell

“They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they…

— Henry James

“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus…

— Toni Morrison

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms…

— Natalie Goldberg

The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.

— Tucker Carlson

“There is an art, a deeply political art, of taking circumstances as they arise and attributing them to your side or the opposition, in…

— Anna Funder

“In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who,…

— Anton Chekhov

“To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely ‘sublimations’; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“As an artist the nuance is your task . Your task is not to simplify. Even should you choose to write in the simplest…

— Philip Roth

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa