Country Quote by Marek Hlasko

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any…

— Ernest Hemingway

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 in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of…

— William Faulkner

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

— Andreï Makine

A writer wastes nothing.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

— Howard Gordon

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.”

— Anthony Liccione