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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

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.

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.