A great number of tourists have been flocking Iceland and those numbers are growing every year. That also raises questions like "How do we receive people?" and "How do we present our country?"

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

[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.

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.