Foreign Soil is dedicated to Australian fiction writers of…

As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour.

— Robert Christgau

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

— Friedrich Schiller

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

— Mike Lee

“If I ever have kids, this is what I'm going to do with them: I am going to give birth to them on foreign…

— Sloane Crosley

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

— Ishmael Reed

Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a…

— Janice Kaplan

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

— Nathan Englander

The love religion is all that is written here.

— Rumi

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

— John Flansburgh

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad…

— Jesse Owens