Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In some ways. I always feel between worlds, between cultures, and I think that's not necessarily a bad place for a writer to be. Writers are kind of on the fringe anyway, observing, writing things down. I'm still mostly American, but it's a nice tension.
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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