An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.

The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.