"In every character I create, there is a part of me and a part of the world I observe."
伟大的小说是能改变读者、让他在读完最后一页后变得不同的小说。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
Art is the closest thing we have to magic.