A writer is a person who is passionately in love with language.
The writer must be a traitor to all forms of tyranny, including the tyranny of the majority.
作家必须是所有形式暴政的叛徒，包括多数人的暴政。
The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it belongs to the reader as much as to the writer.
小说是最民主的艺术形式，因为它既属于作家，也属于读者。
Literature is the art of giving form to the formless.
文学是赋予无形以形式的艺术。
A great novel is one that makes us see the world with new eyes.
伟大的小说是让我们用新的眼光看世界的小说。
The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all power.
作家必须是一个永远的外来者，一个所有权力的批评者。
Literature is the most powerful form of empathy.
The best stories are those that leave us with more questions than answers.
最好的故事是那些留给我们的问题多于答案的故事。
The writer must be a defender of the individual against the tyranny of the collective.
作家必须是个人对抗集体暴政的捍卫者。
The novel is the art of making the private public, the personal universal.
小说是将私人公开化、将个人普遍化的艺术。