No One Writes Back

by Jang Eun-Jin

It seems that selling your own novels would be as difficult as selling your own body. If I said that, she’d probably say, how is it any different from selling the bread you baked, or the gimbap you made?

People think novels should be sold by someone else in order for them to maintain their dignity.

Above all, I no longer wanted to be a disappointment to someone, and I was old enough that I shouldn’t be a disappointment.

A big room only makes you greedy. Because you keep making frantic efforts to fill it up with this and that. Death? When your room is small, you become familiar with death, and are no longer afraid of it,” he said.