It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

  • -- George Plimpton 乔治·普林顿

这也是口述传记的乐趣之一,因为读者,而不是编辑,是陪审团。

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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

我喜欢模糊事实和虚构之间的界限,但又不愿屈尊于读者,让他们陷入某种后现代主义的牢笼。

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

我喜欢传记,我被那些改变了我们命运或观点的人所吸引。

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

读者成为上帝,为了所有的文本目的。我看见你的眼睛变得呆滞,所以我要安静下来。

I had lost faith in biography.

我对传记失去了信心。