Choices Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

— Dree Hemingway

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

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

— Ma Jian

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

— Suketu Mehta

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

— Mahmoud Darwish

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

— Janet Frame

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

— Tim Cahill

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from…

— John Thorn

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries…

— Janet Frame

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I…

— Isabel Allende

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive…

— Edwidge Danticat

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg