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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.
It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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