Country Quote by Asne Seierstad

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I…

— Jonathan Coe

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

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

— Nuruddin Farah

You have to be an outsider to write,

— Martin Cruz Smith

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not…

— Hugo Hamilton

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

— Jackie Kennedy

There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody,…

— Paul Theroux

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to…

— Ernest Gaines

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

— Isaac Marion

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I…

— Jean Fritz