“If you ask me why I came to Iowa, I would say that Iowa is beautiful in the way that any place is beautiful: if you treat it as the answer to a question you’re asking yourself every day, just… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.” — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“I do believe that you can never know yourself let alone the person next to you let alone the person halfway across the world.… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“The thing is not to write what no one else has written but to write what only you could have written.' I found this… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“That was the problem with Alison Fischer: you never knew which part of her to look at. He looked at her face” — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“...how necessary it was to stay on the surface of things. Because beneath the surface was either dread or delirium.” — nam le Copy Share Image
“You couldn't think of after, you only thought of now, and come to think of it, you didn't do that either- you were left… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“And it occurred to me then how it took hours, sometimes day, for the surface of a river to freeze over-to hold in its… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“If you ask me why I came to Iowa, I would say that Iowa is beautiful in the way that any place is beautiful:… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“He looked out the open window. So this was what it was like. He looked through the green foliage, over the ocean, and felt… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“I write under not only the presumption that everything I write is deeply conditioned by everything I’ve already written, but that everything I write… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
