Your 20s are the most defining decade of your life.

I always wanted to be a singer, and I focused on that goal, even when others told me I couldn't do it.

真实是一个不断的过程，而不是一个静止的状态。

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.