Chang-Rae Lee Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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 fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Brother, Father, War

  Source: therumpus.net

• I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

• I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  War, Writing, Novelists

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. March 5, 2010.

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