写作是一种希望的行为，是对文字改变世界力量的信念。

"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone."

The novel is the great art form of the inner life.

苦于对百姓的横征暴敛。