Distance Quote by Ismail Kadaré

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep…

— James Salter

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“An exile's only country is his country's literature.”

— Andreï Makine

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

— Ma Jian

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

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

— Larry McMurtry

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave…

— Roberto Bolano

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

— Anthony Burgess

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

— Flannery O'Connor