不登上高山，就不知道天是多么高远；不亲临深溪，就不知道地是多么深厚。

I have the hunger to keep winning.

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

The past is a shadow that follows us, but it doesn't have to define us.

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.