I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

Writing is an act of resistance against oblivion.

文学永远是一场通往真理的远征。

I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong， maybe even embarrassingly wrong， and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.