艺术
The artist's duty is to create beauty.
The novel is an art form that is always in crisis, always on the verge of disappearing, and that's what keeps it alive.
Literature is the art of the unsaid.
Literature is the art of saying what cannot be said.
The novel is the great art form of the human condition.
The novel is the great art form of the inner life.
The novel is the great art form of the individual voice.
The novel is the great art form of lying to tell the truth.
The dirty little secret is that you don’t have to be a nice person to be a great artist.