Abroad Quote by Miguel Syjuco

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I…

— Isabel Allende

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able…

— Miguel Syjuco

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

— Tim Cahill

All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have…

— Jessica Hagedorn

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

— Nicky Jam

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock…

— F. Sionil Jose

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and…

— Don Winslow

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

— Leonard Cohen

I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five…

— Lore Segal

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the…

— Michael Leunig

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

— Randall Park

I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with…

— Chelsea Cain