The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it requires only a reader.

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart.

To write is to give voice to the silenced.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

【译文】不担心别人不了解自己，就怕自己没有能力。

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the presence of an unspoken truth.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.