A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.
小说不仅仅是一个故事;它是一个建构的物体,一种必须尽可能完美的艺术技巧。
Invention is the mother of necessity.
"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
I write to make sense of the world, to give it a shape, a form.