Censorship Quote by Vaclav Havel

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

— Irwin Shaw

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

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

— Ma Jian

Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they…

— Dinaw Mengestu

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

— Kay Ryan

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

— Lev Grossman

“Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain.  We were interchangeable parts. …

— Bob Mayer

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

— Don Pendleton

I think with every writer there are two people there.

— Hugh Leonard

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

— Terry Brooks

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.

— Karl Marx