I'd get this good feeling about all the things that I could be. And then I never became any of them.

I think that the most important thing in art is to provoke thought, not to provide entertainment.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

"I am not interested in the psychology of characters, but in the psychology of situations."

在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先遇到别的人；在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便应当心存感激。

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

一切都是一个学习的过程：每次你跌倒，它只是在教你下次站起来。