To write is to give oneself over to the world, to let the world in, and to let it change you.

I'm focused on what I can control.

"Children's books should be both a mirror and a window."

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

最好的传记是那些让读者感觉亲自遇见了传主的作品。

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."