艺术是一种用手思考的方式。
A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.