I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, “My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.” We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
我会怀疑自己，我会缺乏安全感，我会恐惧失败。我会在那几个夜晚，在我喜欢的球场上现身时，想着「我的背很痛，我的脚受伤，我的膝盖受伤。我没有办法了，我只想放松。」我们都曾自我怀疑，你不需要否认它，但你也不能够向它屈服。你要做的是去拥抱它。
A novel is a mirror walking down the road, reflecting not just the world but the reader’s soul.
在贫困社区，希望是一种稀缺资源。
Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements.
【译文】凡是事物都有本和末，本末是一体的，不可以把本末分开为两段。
生活中最好的东西是免费的。
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
利润生长在责任播种的地方。
我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家最初都想写诗，发现自己做不到后尝试短篇小说——那是仅次于诗歌要求最高的形式。连这个也失败了，他才会转向长篇小说。