"History is not just about dates and events; it's about the people who lived through them."

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

"The world is a book, and the book is a prison."

我写小说，人们告诉我这是自传；我写自传，人们告诉我这是小说。既然我这么笨，他们这么聪明，那就让他们决定这是什么或不是什么吧。

A mind conscious of its purity is attached to nothing， neither to the body nor to the soul.

The writer’s loyalty must be to literature, not to ideology.