很多人不敢说出他们想要什么，这就是他们得不到的原因。

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

"The worst enemy of truth is not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."

The novel is a form of exploration, a way of understanding the world and our place in it.