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.

A building must be a canvas for life's stories.

写作是为那些没有声音的人发声的一种方式。

Follow your heart and do what you love.

Man is always something more than what he knows about himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process.