The past is a shadow that shapes the present.
过去是一个塑造现在的阴影。
我认为小说是重写历史的最佳方式。
The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
写作的行为是一种勇气的行为。