Always Quote by Ma Jian

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

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

“An exile's only country is his country's literature.”

— Andreï Makine

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

— Theodor Adorno

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to…

— E. B. White

A writer without his country is nothing.

— Marek Hlasko

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

— Roald Dahl

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

— Mahmoud Darwish

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

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

— Dree Hemingway