About Quote by Paul Theroux

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

— Jonathan Ames

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

— Tony Earley

There's a great joy in writing about a place you know very well, but there's also a lot of responsibility in trying to be…

— Celeste Ng

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

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Richard Russo

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

— Veronica Roth

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it,…

— Sylvia Plath

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 write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I…

— Anne Enright

“Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one believes, hopes,…

— David St. John