Britain Quote by Julian Barnes

I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it - to a…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to,…

— Nadine Gordimer

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

— Anne Rice

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in…

— Jim Harrison

Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In…

— Monty Don

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about…

— Derek Walcott

In my experience, Eurosceptics are likelier to have lived abroad and to have entered fully into other cultures than Euro-enthusiasts, many of whom seem…

— Daniel Hannan

“...apparently "London" gave out my address! that's what they're saying...not just London, though! Brazzaville, too!...and said that I'm a dirty pornographer...a letch besides being…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived…

— Daniel Hannan

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all…

— Elie Wiesel

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are…

— Edmund White

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

— Marcel Proust