Away Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your…

— John Dufresne

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

— Richard Russo

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story.…

— Martin McDonagh

Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of your interaction…

— Sean Michael Wilson

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places…

— Harry Turtledove

To write about a place, you have to live there.

— Jonathan Ames

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career…

— Jonathan Meades

I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with…

— Chelsea Cain

If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because…

— Jonathan Meades

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.

— Ella Henderson

I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I…

— Thundercat