Whether a writer likes a place or not, Yu believes that when you can sit down and write about a place, it means you are settled there. And being settled means that you are interacting with the place and that "in one sense the place has become yours!"
不管喜歡或不喜歡，余光中認為，當作家能夠坐下來寫這個地方，就表示到位了，就位了，表示正在與這塊土地交流，「某種意義來講，這個地方就是你的了！」