Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

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

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.