Books Quote by Witold Gombrowicz

“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

“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are not like…

— John Scalzi

“Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.”

— Peter Prange

“I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

“If the reader says the state of affairs which I wish to bring about is right, or is just, or is inevitable and if…

— T.S. Eliot

“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are…

— Charles Dickens

“Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.”

— Roger Scruton

“But since my intention is to write something useful for anyone who understands it, it seemed more suitable for me to search after the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Literature is and should continue to be a vehicle that dispels 'otherness' or the 'outsider”

— Mala Naidoo

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah