Always Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I…

— Pico Iyer

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I never really thought of myself as somebody to move abroad. It just came on my path.

— Floor Jansen

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

— John Berger

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

— Italo Calvino

Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for…

— Mathieu Amalric

I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for…

— Mathieu Amalric

If people have the choice of where they settle in Europe, then we cannot be surprised that they choose to come over here in…

— Sebastian Kurz

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

— Azar Nafisi

I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister…

— Banana Yoshimoto

I love to travel and be in a new place and kind of experience what it would be like to live there.

— Megan Stalter

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems…

— Junot Diaz