"A writer is essentially a person who writes not because he has to, but because he cannot not write."
作家本质上是一个不是因为必须写作,而是因为不能不写作的人。
过去的33年里,我每天早晨都会看着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天,我会想做今天将要做的事吗?”每当答案连续很多天都是“否”时,我知道我需要改变一些事情。
The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most fundamentally human part of the soul.