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.
【释义】天下的事,有那种远见卓识的人不一定能遇到合适的时机,而处在那个时代的人或许又没有那样的见识。
A writer must be willing to be vulnerable.