15 Quotes by Young-ha Kim

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

People want to understand evil. A pointless desire. Evil is like a rainbow. It retreats at the same pace as your approach. Evil is evil because you can't understand it.

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence – then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

The magic question is, ‘What for?’ But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?