Country Quote by Anthony McCarten

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

— Ma Jian

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat.…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

— Janet Frame

A writer without his country is nothing.

— Marek Hlasko

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

— Theodor Adorno

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home…

— Natasha Trethewey

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

— Jay McInerney

“An exile's only country is his country's literature.”

— Andreï Makine

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

— Tony Earley