“Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.” WayWritingCharacterPoliticalVoicePowerfulFictionOpinionWriting FictionPolitical Opinions Author:Jen Lancaster
“TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.” WritingDifferentCharacterStoriesTogetherPoliticalAnimalEmotionalTvsDevelopmentSmartDepthThese DaysCharacter DevelopmentReally SmartDifferent Animals Author:Connie Nielsen
“My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.” WayWritingPhilosophyBeautifulPoliticalRelevantFavouritePolitical PhilosophyLeonTrotsky Author:Andrej Pejic
“What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.” WantWritingPoliticalDidactic Author:Joan D. Vinge
“I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.” WritingMindI CanBookPoliticalReligiousViewsMessagesPoint Of ViewLooking BackTransmit Author:Lois Lowry
“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.” WritingStoriesPoliticalOriginalsUnexpectedRealisingUnexpected PlacesPolitical Writing Author:Denise Mina
“The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.” WritingFactsPoliticalSongPowerfulInstrumentsDimensionsExpress Yourself Author:J. Robbins
“The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.” WritingPoliticalPurposeFourHistoricalEnthusiasmImpulseMotiveProseSheerEgoism Author:George Orwell
“In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.” WayWritingTryingFeelingsPoliticalSongLostOne ThingAbout FamilyFeeling Lost Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.” MenWritingTryingHas BeensGovernmentPoliticalRemainsUnionsTerritoryPersuasionWonderlandLexiconOrwellian Author:Roger Gale
“Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.” PeopleWritingMadeWould BePoliticalHumanityThreeCenturyMaterialsProjectsDefinedFlawedCrookedTimber Author:George Will
“I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.” WritingHas BeensArtEnoughPoliticalPartyRightsIntellectualArt IsPropertyArticlesStolenCocktailsProperty RightsPlagiarismIntellectual PropertyCocktail Parties Author:Michael Heizer
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.” IfsMenWorldWritingBelieveMayYoungPoliticalDesireLostActingEnemyVirtueCrimeHabitHarderDareYoung ManWickedAttributesFelicityWicked ManKnowledge Of The WorldPolitical Writing Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld