2. When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.2. 当我们无法从自己身上获得安宁时，去别处寻求也无用。
3. There are times when we stop. We sit still....We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.3. 我们总有无法前行的时候，此时静静的坐着，聆听从另一个世界传来的轻风物语。
4. As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.4. 作为一名作家，要求自己醒时做梦。
5. No matter how long you've been at it, you always start from scratch.5. 不管你有多熟练，（做事）总是从零开始。
6. Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.6. 写小说如同黑夜驾车，你只能看见探照灯照亮的地方，但是凭着这些便可行完整个旅程。
7. Don't forget—no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.7. 别忘记——无人眼中的世界和你一样，所以没有人可以诉说你要说的故事。
8. At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting.8. 在晚上我看书写字，以前从不明白的事也清晰起来，多年的辛勤耕耘终于有了收获。
9. The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.9. 作家的职责不是说大家都能说得出的，而是说我们只可意会的东西。
10. Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.10. 作家心中的每个秘密，生活的每次经历，脑中的每次思考，都在其作品中被放大。
