名声不是凭空产生的，赞誉也不会自己增长，只有成就了功业，名声才会到来。

最好的故事是那些让你有所感触的故事。

在文学中，就像在爱情中一样，我们会对别人所选择的东西感到惊讶。

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

写作就是在纸上描绘你的声音。