The whole book is told by a prisoner in the American prison camps, so I had to do a lot of research about everything from clothing to food in order to create the material sensations.—Ha Jin, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson The fact that it takes so long to write a novel, years, other people find that kind of forbidding. But to me it means I get to work in the same world and enter this imaginary place for a long period of time. I like that.—Valerie Martin, interviewed by Janet Benton Sometimes, a month will go by when nothing happens. This is scary, but there is nothing I can do about it.—Vikram Chandra, interviewed by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais It’s more like a feeling than anything intellectual. When you’re toward the end of a book, a lot of things are building up. There’s pressure that keeps accruing in terms of all the ideas that you’re talking about and all the language and all the emotion. It points you toward a certain kind of feeling at the end, whether it’s explosive or quiet.—Chang-rae Lee, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson |
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