Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

  • -- Wole Soyinka 黄豆

我意识到有人在努力摧毁我的思想,因为我没有书,没有任何写作的手段,没有人类的陪伴。你永远不知道你有多需要它,直到你失去它。

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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

人类的神经很快就适应了最不寻常的情况和环境。我注意到,尽管我们周围的大炮轰鸣,弹片在我们头上嗖嗖作响,但还是有相当多的人在战壕里精疲力竭地睡着了。

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

一本书,一本真正的书,是作者的忏悔室。因为,不管他愿不愿意,他的性格直接或间接地背叛了他,使他不得不公开表达自己内心深处的感情。

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

说实话,我不读儿童读物。我是一个成年人。我只是把它们写下来。