文章的妙处,在于能在没有字句的地方读出深意,在没有笔墨的地方求得神韵。
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.
"The weight of history is always present in the materials we use."