Best 15 quotes of Young-ha Kim on MyQuotes

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

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

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.

Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

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

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

People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.

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.

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

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

There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

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

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