写作有点像拉屎。如果太费力,那就有问题了。
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.
The truth is a mirror which fell from the hand of God and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
故事是一种表达无法以其他方式表达的东西的方式。
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
In language, there is no one-to-one correspondence between words and the things they refer to.