The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
写作的行为需要不断地潜入过去的阴影中，在那里时间像幽灵一样徘徊。
每个孩子都应该在他们读的故事中看到自己。
艺术家必须学会观察、感受和思考。
"A novel is a conversation across time."
"The colony is the place where the project of a new humanity is to be tested, where the dream of a world without borders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without races is to be realized, where the dream of a world without nations is to be realized."
绝不能为了短期利益而牺牲质量。
做出伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事情。
阅读好书，就如同与过去几个世纪最杰出的人物交谈。