About Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is…

— Linda Sue Park

I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

— David Douglas Duncan

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

— Chang-Rae Lee

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

— Min Jin Lee

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at…

— Haruki Murakami

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

— Michael Morpurgo

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write…

— Aminatta Forna

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic -…

— Bruce Feiler

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place,…

— Antony Beevor