竞争是好事,它迫使你不断进步。
Competition is a good thing, it forces you to keep improving.
人一生中的主要任务是诞生自己,成为他潜在的样子。他努力的最重要产物是他自己的个性。
你给予的越多,你得到的就越多。
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.