Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

好的小说创造同理心。一部小说带你去某个地方,让你透过另一个人的眼睛去看另一个人,去过另一种生活。

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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

学习是倾听的结果,而倾听又能让你更好地倾听和关注他人。换句话说,要向孩子学习,我们必须有同理心,同理心随着我们的学习而增长。

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

每当我要写小说的时候,我总是要创造一个和我背景差不多的人物。

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

愤怒和偏执是正确理解的敌人。

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

小说是关于与人物、事件、地点的亲密关系。