To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the ones that never heal and that define who we are.
成为作家就是要承认我们内心携带的秘密伤口，那些永远不会愈合的伤口，它们定义了我们是谁。
创造就是抵抗——抵抗遗忘，抵抗沉默，抵抗压迫。
Silence can sometimes be more powerful than words.