1. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.1. 無人可以帶給你寧靜，除了你自己。

　　2. When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.2. 當我們無法從自己身上獲得安寧時，去別處尋求也無用。

　　3. There are times when we stop. We sit still....We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.3. 我們總有無法前行的時候，此時靜靜的坐著，聆聽從另一個世界傳來的輕風物語。

　　4. As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.4. 作為一名作家，要求自己醒時做夢。

　　5. No matter how long you've been at it, you always start from scratch.5. 不管你有多熟練，（做事）總是從零開始。

　　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. 寫小說如同黑夜駕車，你只能看見探照燈照亮的地方，但是憑著這些便可行完整個旅程。

　　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. 別忘記——無人眼中的世界和你一樣，所以沒有人可以訴說你要說的故事。

　　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. 在晚上我看書寫字，以前從不明白的事也清晰起來，多年的辛勤耕耘終于有了收獲。

　　9. The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.9. 作家的職責不是說大家都能說得出的，而是說我們只可意會的東西。

　　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. 作家心中的每個秘密，生活的每次經歷，腦中的每次思考，都在其作品中被放大。