One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science, is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life, in ordered to find the peace and the security, which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
我从来不想重复自己,每个作品都应该有自己的个性。
——出席国民党上海交通部恳亲会,1913年1月10日