I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves..

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

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw..

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 ….

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

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..

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes..

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….

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….

Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash….

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done..

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

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

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

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

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

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 ….

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

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….