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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ~ George Orwell
Political Writing quotes by George Orwell
Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of them. The first is staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing. As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. ~ George Orwell
Political Writing quotes by George Orwell
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ~ Joseph Roux
Political Writing quotes by Joseph Roux
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. ~ Robert Harris
Political Writing quotes by Robert Harris
I've always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one's readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do. ~ Glenn Greenwald
Political Writing quotes by Glenn Greenwald
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. ~ George Orwell
Political Writing quotes by George Orwell
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. ~ Isabel Allende
Political Writing quotes by Isabel Allende
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it. ~ Mario Vargas-Llosa
Political Writing quotes by Mario Vargas-Llosa
Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved. ~ Sasa Stanisic
Political Writing quotes by Sasa Stanisic
I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it. ~ Melvin Burgess
Political Writing quotes by Melvin Burgess
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny. ~ Denise Mina
Political Writing quotes by Denise Mina
American movies, English books - remember how they all end?" Gamini asked that night. "The American or the Englishman gets on a plane and leaves. That's it. The camera leaves with him. He looks out of the window at Mombasa or Vietnam or Jakarta, someplace now he can look at through the clouds. The tired hero. A couple of words to the girl beside him. He's going home. So the war, to all purposes, is over. That's enough reality for the West. It's probably the history of the last two hundred years of Western political writing. Go home. Write a book. Hit the circuit. ~ Michael Ondaatje
Political Writing quotes by Michael Ondaatje
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art'. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. [...]
My book about the Spanish civil war, Homage to Catalonia, is of course a frankly political book, but in the main it is written with a certain detachment and regard for form. I did try very hard in it to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. But among other things it contains a long chapter, full of newspaper quotations and the like, defending the Trotskyists who were accused of plotting with Franco. Clearly such a chapter, which after a year or two would lose its interest for any ordinary reader, must ruin the book. A critic whom I respect read me a lecture about it. 'Why did you put in all that stuff?' he said. 'You've turned what might have been a good book into journalism.' What he said was true, but I could not have done otherwise. I happened to know, what very few people in England had been allowed to know, that innocent men were being falsely accused. If I had not been angry about that I should never have written the book. ~ George Orwell
Political Writing quotes by George Orwell
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. ~ Judy Collins
Political Writing quotes by Judy Collins
A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts. ~ Debasish Mridha
Political Writing quotes by Debasish Mridha
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. ~ Ken Follett
Political Writing quotes by Ken Follett
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery. ~ Susan Orlean
Political Writing quotes by Susan Orlean
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness. ~ Taiye Selasi
Political Writing quotes by Taiye Selasi
I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing. ~ David Bergen
Political Writing quotes by David Bergen
What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. ~ Christopher Hitchens
Political Writing quotes by Christopher Hitchens
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better. ~ Jeffrey Sachs
Political Writing quotes by Jeffrey Sachs
It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Political Writing quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
Does he think my writing is not a prayer? Does he think because I hold a pen I don't grieve? ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Political Writing quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. ~ Robert Frost
Political Writing quotes by Robert Frost
Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times. Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person. ~ John Cusack
Political Writing quotes by John Cusack
I found sometimes, that it is of great help in handling such a case, to encourage them, to express their peculiar contents either in the form of writing or of drawing and painting. There are so many incomprehensible intuitions in such cases, phantasy fragments that rise from the unconscious, for which there is almost no suitable language. I let my patients find their own symbolic expressions, their mythology. ~ C. G. Jung
Political Writing quotes by C. G. Jung
I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally. ~ Sayed Kashua
Political Writing quotes by Sayed Kashua
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing ~ Douglas Adams
Political Writing quotes by Douglas Adams
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
Political Writing quotes by Ernest Hemingway,
I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. ~ Ashly Lorenzana
Political Writing quotes by Ashly Lorenzana
Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. ~ Aneta Cruz
Political Writing quotes by Aneta Cruz
It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of". ~ Gordon Lightfoot
Political Writing quotes by Gordon Lightfoot
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring. ~ Michael Dirda
Political Writing quotes by Michael Dirda
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. ~ John Ralston Saul
Political Writing quotes by John Ralston Saul
Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that. ~ Sam Shepard
Political Writing quotes by Sam Shepard
Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out. ~ Avril Lavigne
Political Writing quotes by Avril Lavigne
The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. ~ Ken Bruen
Political Writing quotes by Ken Bruen
The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda. ~ Mark Hyman, M.D.
Political Writing quotes by Mark Hyman, M.D.
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is like a shard that has been chipped from a great boulder by a violent impact, then flung far away; because there is no certitude outside falsification. ~ Italo Calvino
Political Writing quotes by Italo Calvino
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ~ Alexei Navalny
Political Writing quotes by Alexei Navalny
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. ~ David Mamet
Political Writing quotes by David Mamet
Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing. ~ Teju Cole
Political Writing quotes by Teju Cole
Now there's some honest writing! ~ Elizabeth Berg
Political Writing quotes by Elizabeth Berg
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing. ~ E. M. Forster
Political Writing quotes by E. M. Forster
When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells. ~ Kelley Armstrong
Political Writing quotes by Kelley Armstrong
It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted. ~ Maria Montessori
Political Writing quotes by Maria Montessori
Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings and foolish little vanities and impertinences and ambitions; their foolish little life is but a laugh, a sigh, and extinction; and they have no sense. Only the Moral Sense. I will show you what I mean. Here is a red spider, not so big as a pin's head. Can you imagine an elephant being interested in him-- caring whether he is happy or isn't, or whether he is wealthy or poor, whether his sweetheart returns his love or not, whether his mother is sick or well, whether he is looked up to in society or not, whether his enemies will smite him or his friends desert him, whether his hopes will suffer blight or his political ambitions fail, whether he shall die in the bosom of his family or neglected and despised in a foreign land? These things can never be important to the elephant; they are nothing to him; he cannot shrink his sympathies to the microscopic size of them. Man is to me as the red spider is to the elephant. The elephant has nothing against the spider--he cannot get down to that remote level; I have nothing against man. The elephant is indifferent; I am indifferent. ~ Mark Twain
Political Writing quotes by Mark Twain
Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events. ~ Llewellyn Rockwell
Political Writing quotes by Llewellyn Rockwell
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. ~ Jennifer Weiner
Political Writing quotes by Jennifer Weiner
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding ... If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly. ~ Saint Augustine
Political Writing quotes by Saint Augustine
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers - common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons. ~ Stephen King
Political Writing quotes by Stephen King
The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation. ~ John F. Kennedy
Political Writing quotes by John F. Kennedy
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting. ~ Laurie Foos
Political Writing quotes by Laurie Foos
I strive for transparent words. ~ David John Griffin
Political Writing quotes by David John Griffin
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. ~ Robert Caro
Political Writing quotes by Robert Caro
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. ~ Jane Smiley
Political Writing quotes by Jane Smiley
They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All a writer has is her own experience, and that experience comes out of human relationships. ~ Vivian Gornick
Political Writing quotes by Vivian Gornick
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