Don’t wait until they tell you you are ready. The world might say you are not allowed to yet. I waited a long time in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please, Don’t even bother asking, don't bothering telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
"Writing is a way of saying to the world, 'I exist, and I have something to say.'"
在全球化时代，保持文化身份比任何时候都更重要。
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
信仰是伟大的逃避，是逃避思考和评估证据需要的伟大借口。
The bigger the crowd, the more unnatural the picture.