• It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

    V. S. Pritchett: It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
    "How Did I Do That?" by Deborah Stead, archive.nytimes.com. March 24, 1991.