小说质量的最大预测因素是小说家愿意面对自己或他人的不美好真相。
The greatest predictor of a novel's quality is the novelist's willingness to confront the unlovely truth about himself or herself.
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
法律是一位善妒的情人。
