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I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

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.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

I don't want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody's political beliefs. I've never done that. I've never tried to get involved in those things.