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“Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.”

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Author:Jen Lancaster

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

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Author:Rupert Sanders

“Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.”

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Author:Orhan Pamuk

“The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is political fiction.”

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Author:Ann McLane Kuster

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.”

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Book:Bodies of Work: Essays

Source: Bodies of Work: Essays