A writer must be stubborn, must have a vocation of sacrifice, and must accept that literature is a very cruel mistress.
作家必須固執(zhí)，必須有犧牲的使命，必須接受文學(xué)是一個非常殘酷的情人。
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
"Great lives are like great novels - they have plot twists, character development, and moments of sheer poetry."