I Know It Really Sounds

In America, The Stories We Tell Ourselves And We Tell Each Other In Fiction Have To Do With Individualism. Every Person Here Is The Center Of His Or Her Own Story. And Our Job As People And As Characters Is To Find Our Own Motivations And Desires, To Overcome Conflicts And Obstacles Toward Defining Ourselves So That We Grow And Change.

Like Putting A Name To My Problems Would Solve Anything

The Death Of Dictator Kim Jong-il Has Cast All Eyes On North Korea, A Country Without Literature Or Freedom Or Truth.

Writing Is Hard Work, And If Anything's True About The Process, It's That Fact That A Good Story Is Hard To Find And Even Trickier To Get On Paper. What's Less Romantic Than Staring Alone At A Blank Screen? And Edgy? I've Changed The Cat Little Because I Didn't Know What My Characters Were Going To Say Next.

Imagine A World In Which No Writer Has Written A Literary Novel In Sixty Years. Imagine A Place Where Not A Single Person Has Read A Book That Is Truly About The Character At Its Center.