A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
说到底，作家只是他书的一半。另一半是读者，作家从读者那里学习。
I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.
信念有创造的力量，也有毁灭的力量。
小说是探索人性复杂性的最佳工具。