作家最大的挑战是保持对故事和角色的诚实。

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

The power of abstraction is that it allows us to ignore details that are not relevant to the task at hand.

"The process of making a film is as important as the film itself."

Clarity and order are the foundations of good writing.

Fiction is a way of telling the truth without being constrained by facts.

——《在沪举办茶话会上的演说》（1916年7月17日）

我很久以前就决定不活在别人的阴影里；如果我失败了，或者成功了，至少我是按照自己的信念去做的。