And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

  • -- F. L. Lucas 卢卡斯

如何达到清晰?主要是通过找麻烦和写作来为人们服务,而不是给他们留下深刻印象。

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I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

我已经到了人生的一个阶段,没有必要再去试图给人留下深刻的印象。如果他们喜欢我现在的样子,那很好。如果他们不这样做,那就太糟糕了。

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

也许南方小说写作的例子是如此的强大,以至于南方的诗人在某种程度上把自己锁定在了这一点上。

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

在写作的世界里,我所做的一切,都是为了扩大表达,而不是关闭它。

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

我不认为我应该只写我所知道的,但我也应该写其他的。

Don't live to impress people that really couldn't care less about you. That's wasting your life.

不要为了取悦那些不在乎你的人而活。那是在浪费你的生命。

I was rather a fat little boy.

我是一个相当胖的小男孩。