La ficción nos permite vivir otras vidas, entender otras perspectivas y, en última instancia, comprendernos mejor a nosotros mismos.
小说让我们能够体验其他生活，理解其他视角，并最终更好地理解自己。
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
I write to make sense of the chaos within me.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
"I don't think of myself as a photorealist. I think of myself as a realist painter."