写作的行为需要不断地潜入过去的阴影中，在那里时间像幽灵一样徘徊。
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
The quiet revolution in women’s education and employment has transformed society in ways we are still discovering.
I am not interested in the unique, but in the banal.
I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.