作家的职责是讲述真相，即使它令人不安。

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

The world is a plot, a conspiracy, a cabal.

You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an "unfortunate" -- literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.