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The past is always changing. It is not fixed. The past is not stable.

過去總是在變化。它不是固定的。過去并不穩定。

I like the idea that every life has its own rhythm, that people are not simply points moving through time.

我喜歡這樣的想法：每個生命都有自己的節奏，人們不僅僅是時間中移動的點。

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

小說家是一個生活在別人皮膚里的人。

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

寫作的行為是一種樂觀的行為。如果你覺得它不重要，你就不會費心去做。

There is no history except as it is composed.

歷史只有在被書寫時才存在。

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

計劃寫作不是寫作。列提綱、做研究、和別人談論你在做什么，這些都不是寫作。寫作就是寫作。

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

歷史學家會告訴你發生了什么。小說家會告訴你那是什么感覺。

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

歷史就是現在。這就是為什么每一代人都要重新書寫它。但大多數人認為的歷史是其最終產物——神話。

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

作家不是在真空中造就的。作家是見證者。我們需要作家的原因是因為我們需要見證這個可怕的世紀。

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

寫作是一種社會認可的精神分裂癥形式。