我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家都想先写诗,发现自己做不到,然后尝试短篇小说,这是诗歌之后要求最高的形式。如果连这都失败了,他才会转向写小说。
最坚强的人是那些经历过最多但仍然选择去爱的人。
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.
真正的奢华在于那些大多数人第一眼甚至注意不到的细节。