When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
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To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.
What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.
Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.
While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.