作为一个作家的巨大优势是你可以窥探人们。你在那里,听着每一个字,但你的一部分在观察。对作家来说,一切都是有用的,每一片碎片,甚至是最长最无聊的午餐会。
我不想成为一个象征,我想做我自己。
Every life contains its own mysteries, and the biographer must respect the unknowable.
流放不是地点,而是一种状态。
She had always been a watcher, a listener, a collector of stories.