I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

  • -- Mary Oliver 玛丽·奥利弗

我阅读一个人游泳的方式,以挽救他或她的生命。我也是这么写的。

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

书的好处在于被人阅读。书是由一些符号组成的,这些符号代表着其他符号,而这些符号又代表着事物。如果没有眼睛去阅读,一本书所包含的符号就不会产生任何概念;所以它是哑的。

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

我是个相当苦行的人。我大部分的写作都是在晚上。你不会分心,你的大脑会进入你所写的东西,进入你所写的世界,而不是你所处的世界。

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

一本书之所以“好”,很大程度上是因为我们在正确的时间阅读了它。

There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

没有所谓的“有抱负的作家”。你是个作家。时期。