成为一名作家就是成为一名专业的观察者。

我不想成为女王，我想成为那些没有声音的人的声音。

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

A novelist's job is to lie, but to reveal the truth through lies.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.  

Memory is identity... You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are.

The best stories are those that challenge our assumptions.

Everywhere there is a large commission, there is a high probability of a rip-off.