A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

  • -- Gerard de Marigny 杰拉德·德·马里尼

作家失败,不是因为读者没有被感动;但是,作为一个读者,当作者没有被感动的时候。

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The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

直到作者把自己的版本写在纸上,这个世界才完全有意义。奇怪的是,写作的行为比生活更逼真。

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

语言就像x光一样,如果你正确地使用它们——它们可以穿透任何东西。你一看书就被扎了。