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There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?

— Alaya Dawn Johnson

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

— Rachel Kushner

It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? 'Downton Abbey' is about class. It's also about race.

— Riz Ahmed

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.

— Billy Graham

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

— John Edgar Wideman

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

— Jim Leach

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

— Jerry Springer

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

— Callie Khouri

What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives.

— Molly Ivins

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.

— Gunter Grass