Anathema Quote by Wole Soyinka

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social…

— Janis Ian

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

“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

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

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

— Peter Morgan

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

“For politics is not just about things necessary and eternal, nor is it just a matter of good judgment in a given situation. It…

— Daniel Gross

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

— Michael Heseltine

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn…

— Robert Adams

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

— Michael Wolff