每一个真正的艺术创作都是独立于时间和空间而构思的。

写小说就像回忆从未发生过的事情。

A picture must be grasped at once, as a whole, like a piece of music or a poem.

Don’t wait for opportunities—create them.

记忆是一件复杂的事情，是真相的亲戚，但不是它的双胞胎。

I'm not interested in playing the same character twice.

文学是对生活的虚假再现，帮助我们更好地理解生活。

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.