Countries Quote by James Joyce

“His stories rarely began in foreign countries, for the minds of listeners cannot easily fly there on their own powers.”

— Hermann Hesse

“She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.”

— Fatima Mernissi

“He didn’t know what country he was in, but he was at home in the universe.”

— Denis Johnson

“Stories can actually rearrange continents if they're told long enough.”

— Scott McClanahan

“And the space where his legend was gathering up words grew larger. Because this story was not over yet.”

— Laini Taylor

“If you would know this country, you must know its stories.”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“The ice was there. The distance between him and the rest of the world.”

— Christine Feehan

“I exist in a twenty-mile radius, but through him, I know all lands, principalities and kingdoms, peoples and customs. I need never be ashamed…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“In the entire history of the universe, there are many tales worth telling. ”

— Matthew Kadish

“The thing about going abroad is that it's quite far away.”

— Richard Hammond

“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories,…

— Andrew Lam

“He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.”

— Patricia A. McKillip