You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.
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I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
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.
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.
We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.