The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
"Be yourself, because everyone else is already taken."
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 turn to the novel.
生活中最美好的事情是我们爱的人、去过的地方和沿途创造的回忆。
疯狂与天才之间的界限是由那些害怕两者的人划定的。