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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.