I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There's a difference.
"To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside."
智者能够从自然界的秩序中汲取启示,以指导个体的生活。
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.