A writer must be stubborn, must have a vocation of sacrifice, and must accept that literature is a very cruel mistress.
我并非天生失明,而是在12岁时失去视力,但我从未觉得自己是个受害者。
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'