"You do not just wake up and become the butterfly—growth is a process."

应对恐惧的唯一方法就是直面它。

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

写作是一种思考的方式，一种理解世界的方式。

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.