Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.
One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.
I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.
I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.
I usually leave Reykavik for two to three weeks to go to the South Coast of Iceland where I have a small fisherman's hut from the beginning of the last century. That's where I sit down and do the actual writing. I might write for 16 hours a day or something. That's how it happens.