„For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.“

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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„In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.“
— George Orwell
„After all, everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, it is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.“
— Gertrude Stein