We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.

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

I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?