Maybe you/he? could never write them,

[sitifan]

“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well, he would never know, now.”
(My bold.)
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/771128-now-he-would-never-write-the-things-that-he-had

Is it possible that "he" and "you" refer to the same person in the above quotation?

 

[5jj]

I think it's the impersonal 'you'. In very formal writing it would be 'one'.

 

[jutfrank]

I think you're asking whether the sentence with 'you' could be read as the protagonist's inner voice talking to himself. Is that it?

 

[sitifan]

I think you're asking whether the sentence with 'you' could be read as the protagonist's inner voice talking to himself. Is that it?

Yes, it is. In the Chinese version of the quotation, "you" is translated as "he" by Morris Chang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang

 

[jutfrank]

I see. Yes, I think it's a good way of reading it. I think it makes more sense than it being the impersonal 'you', as suggested above.