Country Quote by Paul Theroux

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

“Apart from having ‘National Poet’, ‘National Anthem’ etc., I hope it will not be irrelevant if there is ‘National Writer’ in every country!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also…

— Andrew James Pritchard

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no…

— James Fenton

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that…

— Elizabeth George

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood

A writer without his country is nothing.

— Marek Hlasko

“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to be known…

— Charles Bukowski

“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”

— Avijeet Das