"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

I don’t follow the rules, I make them.

A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.

"The true measure of a society’s progress is how it treats its most vulnerable members."

艺术家的旅程从来都不容易，但它总是值得的。

To write is to give shape to the unseen.