“He looked out the open window. So this was what it was like. He looked through the green foliage, over the ocean, and felt around him the heat massing in the air, the current of coolness running through it, taking… — 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