What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.
I usually leave Reykavik for two to three weeks to go to the South Coast of Iceland where I have a small fisherman's hut from the beginning of the last century. That's where I sit down and do the actual writing. I might write for 16 hours a day or something. That's how it happens.
I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!
Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.
I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.
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.