Asked Quote by Dinaw Mengestu

Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.

— Anthony McCarten

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I…

— Elena Poniatowska

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any…

— Ernest Hemingway

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

— Zadie Smith

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as…

— Anne Lamott