Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

写作是一种勇气的行为——你必须愿意失败。

It is a logically necessary truth that the future will resemble the past.