Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past..

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 tru….

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy..

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth..

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . ..

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely ….

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything.

I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to sp….

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you..

What good's a captive without her captor?.

Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you do….

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out..

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar..

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range.

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough,….

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare ligh….

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self..

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your tr….

The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *in….

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And….

"A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on y….