Above Quote by Juan Goytisolo

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

— Gilles Deleuze

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

— Moshe Safdie

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

— Abba Eban

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well,…

— Vissarion Belinsky

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

— Johnny Van Zant

Ours is a vast country, many languages, many castes, creeds, religions.

— Mamata Banerjee

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation;…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

— Robert Frost

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I…

— Jonathan Coe