About Quote by Justin Cartwright

The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.

— Tony Evans

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

— Frederic Bastiat

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It…

— Terry Pratchett

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse…

— Henry Clay

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

— Kay Granger

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because…

— Mark McMorris

“I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history books, go…

— Chenjerai Hove

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

— Abba Eban

“What people discard could make a nation”

— Don DeLillo

“If you don’t know the fantasy life of a country, it’s hard to write fiction about it.”

— Philip Roth