我不是一個(gè)放棄幸福的人。
I'm not a person who gives up on my happiness.
The best books are those that leave you changed.
The novel is a machine for generating meaning.
I'm not a winner, I'm a loser.
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.