The only thing that matters is the work itself.
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.
You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.
I don’t think you should ever feel like you’ve achieved everything. You always have to keep pushing.
我认为你不应该觉得自己已经取得了一切成就。你必须不断努力。
作家是一个总是试图为他的故事找到正确的节奏、正确的语调、正确的声音的人。
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
