It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me. (V. S. Pritchett)

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

V. S. Pritchett

Related topics

born everyone foreign

Related quotes

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number One.

Arthur Ashe

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Iris Murdoch

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James Baldwin