作家必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的，他也必须坚持这种幻觉。
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
我写的每一个字都是对沉默的胜利。
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.