Border Quote by S. Ansky

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see…

— Stefan Zweig

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

— Theodor Adorno

Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.

— Michael Korda

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

— Charles Bukowski

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

“The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants…

— Ann Patchett

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes,…

— Jamie Weise

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

— Ma Jian