Ruth Ozeki Quotes

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

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's not central to my work, unlike, say, China Mieville, who's very politicised.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

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

I'm not in politics.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

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.

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

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.

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

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

I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

The greatest weapon in an ideological war is words.

Be not surprised that I am turned politician. The whole town is immersed in politics.

I have the disease called politics.

Every political persuasion has something they want to get off the screen.

You can’t be too firm. What the public meetings want is nonsense, not politics: something quite shadowy, speculative, and not practical.

Political writings are often over-exaggerated polemics bearing the imprint of the period and the place in which written.

At age 13 I knew that communists were bad people and we had to get rid of them…Growing up before we were concerned about the role of government, or policy we had to get rid of the communists.