I believe in the power of storytelling.
小说的目的是让你走出自己的生活,意识到其他人的生活。
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
There are other reasons --There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their life span.
我觉得自己先是一个诗人,然后才是个音乐家。我活着像个诗人,死后也还是个诗人。
The book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.