写作的行为是一种勇气的行为，是与自我的对抗。

皮革行业必须进化，否则就有被淘汰的风险。我们的责任是在传统与进步之间找到平衡。

文学有能力弥合分歧，促进来自不同背景的人们之间的共情。

And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.