夜里不睡的人，白天多多少少总有什么逃避掩饰的吧。白昼解不开的结，黑夜慢慢耗。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.