About Quote by Jonathan Coe

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

— Asne Seierstad

I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat.…

— Carlos Fuentes

“I travel whenever I can - every couple of years if it is possible. I always say I'm not to write books on the…

— Ursula Torday

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody,…

— Paul Theroux

I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you…

— Sarah Pinborough

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I…

— Billy Bragg

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with…

— Chelsea Cain

Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane…

— Kate Atkinson

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place. The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. Almost without…

— Amos Oz