The best fiction makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
最好的小说让熟悉的变得陌生，让陌生的变得熟悉。
Every story is a kind of ghost, haunting the present.
每个故事都是一种幽灵，萦绕在当下。
The past is a place we can visit but never stay.
过去是一个我们可以造访但无法停留的地方。
Writing is about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.
The most ordinary lives are full of extraordinary moments.
最平凡的生活中充满了非凡的瞬间。
A story is never finished; it’s only abandoned.
故事永远不会完成，只会被放弃。
The things we don’t say shape us as much as the things we do.
我们未说出口的话塑造我们的程度不亚于我们说过的话。
The act of writing is an act of faith—in language, in the reader, in the story itself.
写作是一种信仰的行为——对语言、对读者、对故事本身的信仰。
A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader, across time.
Even in the quietest lives, there is drama.
即使在最安静的生活中，也有戏剧性。