About Quote by Linda Sue Park

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to…

— Chang-Rae Lee

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 surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy stuff. But…

— Park Yeon-mi

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

— David Douglas Duncan

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book…

— Asne Seierstad

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

— Chang-Rae Lee

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 felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't…

— Michelle Zauner

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his…

— David McCullough

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

— Chang-Rae Lee

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books…

— Adam Johnson

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