Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

  • -- Edna O'Brien 埃德娜·奥布赖恩

作家总是焦虑不安,总是疲于奔命——远离电话,远离责任,远离尘世的纷扰。

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

写作是一种治疗;有时候,我在想,所有那些不写作、不作曲、不画画的人,是如何摆脱人类所固有的疯狂、忧郁、恐慌和恐惧的。

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

写作的唯一目的是让读者更好地享受生活或更好地忍受生活。