历史总是个人的。
Characters must surprise their creators.
角色必须让他们的创造者感到惊讶。
写作是与沉默搏斗。
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.
小说是揭示真相的谎言。
The best stories are those that haunt you.
最好的故事是那些萦绕在你心头的故事。
A good sentence should have a kind of tension in it.
一个好句子应该包含某种张力。
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
过去从未消逝，它甚至还未成为过去。
Every novel is an experiment.
每部小说都是一次实验。
Writing is a way of thinking.
写作是一种思考方式。
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
你无法回到过去改变开头，但你可以从现在开始改变结局。
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."