I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

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.

Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.

[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 have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.