And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World (November 1887)
要创造不同的东西,你必须有不同的想法。
The challenge is to transform the constraints into opportunities.
The novel is an art form that is always in crisis, always on the verge of disappearing, and that's what keeps it alive.