Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows.

The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos.

I'm not a political filmmaker.

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

For me, my party views don't advance my narrative. Until I can find a way to write political satire like my idols Christopher Buckley or P.J. O'Rourke, I'll simply say what team I play for and leave it at that.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

It is difficult to make political art work.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.