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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
A man who knows why he lives can endure any kind of life.
小说家的任务不是告诉读者世界是什么样子，而是让读者看到世界可能是什么样子。
生活就像一盒巧克力，你永远不知道下一颗是什么味道。