我们都是自己生活的作者，但我们也是别人故事中的角色。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

写作是关于造句。它是关于句子的节奏，句子的音乐。