Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

  • -- Jeanette Winterson 温特森

学者们喜欢对一部作品进行理论分析,但每一本书都在吞噬作者,是他或她的世界的总和。

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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的,因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达,去触及,去表达我们内心的某种东西,去理解他人。

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

我爱写作。我喜欢文字的漩涡和摇摆,因为它们与人类的情感纠缠在一起。