Young-Ha Kim Quotes & Sayings

People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges. — Young-Ha Kim

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

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? — Young-Ha Kim

An artist's passion shouldn't create passion. An artist's supreme virtue is to be detached and cold. — Young-Ha Kim

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence. — Young-Ha Kim

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence. — Young-Ha Kim

A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him. — Young-Ha Kim

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller. — Young-Ha Kim

There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder. — Young-Ha Kim

People who don't know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don't know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life. — Young-Ha Kim

The present is re-created to immortalize memories. It's pathetic, but that's human tendency now. — Young-Ha Kim

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. — Young-Ha Kim

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet. — Young-Ha Kim

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence - then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Young-Ha Kim

And still everything's the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could. — Young-Ha Kim

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal. — Young-Ha Kim