我告诉我的学生，不要追逐这个主题，好像它与故事本身是分开的。故事背后的想法必须通过小说的经验来到您身边，而不是像所涉及的东西一样。
(Don't go chasing after the grand theme, the idea, I told my students, as if it is separate from the story itself. The idea or ideas behind the story must come to you through the experience of the novel and not as something tacked onto it.)