How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

  • -- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

你怎么把女人写得这么好?想到一个男人,我就会失去理智和责任感。

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A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

一部小说必须展现真实的世界,人物的真实想法,事件的真实发生。一部小说应该以某种方式揭示我们行为的真实来源。

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

我不再在室内画男人读书和女人编织的图案。我要画活着的人,他们呼吸、感受、受苦和爱。

I am writing neither for prestige nor wealth. I am writing purely out of enjoyment and the desire to tell a story.

我写作不是为了名望,也不是为了财富。我写作纯粹是为了享受和讲故事的欲望。

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

男人和女人,女人和男人。它永远不会起作用。