小说是一种思考世界的方式，而不仅仅是描述世界的方式。
The novel is a way of thinking about the world, not just a way of describing it.
过去总在变化，因为我们与它的关系总在改变。
The stories I’m writing now are more and more about memory, about the past, and about how we reconstruct the past.
有时最安静的插图反而最有力量。
