Country Quote by Che Guevara

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

— Aminatta Forna

To lie about a far country is easy

— Guy de Maupassant

A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make…

— Jim Trelease

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat…

— Leslie Charteris

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's…

— Charles Kuralt

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of…

— Susan Griffin

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

— Tahir Shah

“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

— Asne Seierstad

There is no language without deceit.

— Italo Calvino

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

— Philip Pullman

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on…

— Michael Korda