Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.
I am not in exile.
I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.