What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

  • -- A.S. Byatt A.S.拜亚特

文学能够也应该做的是改变那些教那些不读书的人的人。

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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

我认为写文学作品应该给人带来乐趣。还应该讲些什么呢?它不是核物理。它必须给人带来快乐,否则就一文不值。

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

名字比学说更容易改变,学说比仪式更容易改变。

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

爱是一种尝试,把一个梦想的世界变成现实。

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

艺术和文学的支柱,就像战争的支柱一样,是金钱。