I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

客人来了，主人不去招呼，他可能是个不知事理的傻子。

"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."