Writing Quote by Saadat Hasan Manto

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

— Kiran Desai

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform…

— Nadine Gordimer

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is…

— Aravind Adiga

“Let me be very clear. For me geography does not exist! I strongly object to the whole concept of “foreign literature”...and speaking of national…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

A writer without his country is nothing.

— Marek Hlasko