Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I believe in the power of storytelling. It's how we make sense of the world and our place in it.

译文：少年不知道早起勤奋学习，到老了后悔读书少就太迟了。赏析：人在年轻时，精力旺盛，正是勤奋读书，努力奋斗的时候。

To write is to breathe, to live, to exist beyond the confines of the body.

释义：求学之人若不勤奋，必然是其志向不坚定。

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.