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

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

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?"

[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 do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying them. Then just over a month ago she asked me if I would like to be the third author to join the library.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.