Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas..

I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday..

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together..

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated..

[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 lyri….

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….

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 la….

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 pe….

The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and….

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

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world..

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is..

I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that….

Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are comi….

Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everyth….

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

Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Lou….

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for politica….

I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously ….

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..

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize..