When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

  • -- Hilaire Belloc 贝洛克

我死的时候,愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的,他的书是被人诵读的。’

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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

我相信我的直觉能找到主题,我凭直觉写作。我有一个想法,当我开始,我有一个形状;但只有在几年之后,我才能完全理解我所写的东西。

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

在一位希腊教授和几位诗人的一点帮助下,图书馆和图书管理员造就了我。

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

一个好的(短篇小说)会把我从自己身上抽离出来,然后再把我塞回去。

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.

我花了很多时间与神奇的书中的人物交谈。

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

写作过程中最困难和复杂的部分是开始。

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

当你读书的时候,你从不孤单。