小说是揭示伟大真理的伟大谎言。
Literature is the fire that keeps us human in an inhuman world.
文学是在非人的世界中保持我们人性的火焰。
The writer must be a smuggler of truths, a clandestine agent of freedom.
作家必须是真理的走私者，自由的秘密特工。
The novel is the art of the unfinished, the unresolved.
A great novel is a conversation between the author and the reader across time and space.
伟大的小说是作者与读者跨越时空的对话。
The writer’s true homeland is language.
作家真正的祖国是语言。
The novel is a weapon against fanaticism and intolerance.
小说是对抗狂热和不宽容的武器。
Literature is the art of making the invisible visible.
文学是让不可见的东西变得可见的艺术。
The writer must be a perpetual beginner, always doubting, always searching.
作家必须是一个永远的初学者，总是怀疑，总是探索。
The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.
小说是所有艺术形式中最民主的，因为它只依赖于读者的想象力。
To write is to choose between silence and lies.