Exile Quote by Janet Frame

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 writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a…

— 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

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

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

“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of…

— Michel de Certeau

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native…

— Anonymous

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home”

— Theodor W. Adorno

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

— Theodor Adorno

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer