You have to be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Healthy enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

写作是一种勇气的行为，是与自我和世界的对抗。

The historian must be a poet and an artist in order to give life to the dead bones of the past.

"I write to destroy the lie, but I always end up creating it."