So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
A writer is a person who is obsessed with language, with words, with the power of words to create worlds.
人は誰でも、自分が一番大切な存在だと思っている。それが普通だ。でも、本当に大切なのは、自分以外の誰かを大切にできるかどうかだ。