I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  • -- Barry Hannah 巴里·汉纳

我很早就发现了评论。它们大多是悲伤的人在糟糕的下午写的。这可能就是为什么我没有一些作家那么愤怒的原因,他们是如此自恋,他们认为每一篇评论的每一行,甚至是一个深思熟虑的评论,都是重大的背叛。

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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

长时间、不分青红皂白地读书是一项特别吃力不讨好、令人恼火和筋疲力尽的工作。它不仅包括赞美垃圾,还包括不断地对那些没有任何自然感觉的书做出反应。

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

作为公民,我们必须更有思想、更有教育、更有见识。我打开电视,看到这些成年人互相大喊大叫,我想,如果我们不恢复我们的礼貌,我们就有麻烦了。

If I never received a bad review then I wouldn't be a real writer, but I much prefer the good ones.

如果我从来没有收到过不好的评论,那么我就不是一个真正的作家,但我更喜欢好的评论。

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

我认为道德总是存在的;这并不总是一种深思熟虑或深思熟虑的道德规范。