You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

  • -- Katherine Anne Porter 凯瑟琳·安·波特

你不能写教科书之外的人物,你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而,语言的含义和暗示,以及它的含意,都能吸引最高的智力。

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了,那么你可以为孩子们写。

First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

第一个要点:我写作是为了毁灭,通过准确地描述威胁到我清醒生活的夜间怪物。

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

但是如果思想腐化了语言,语言也能腐化思想。

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing.

有时候,语言是渴望的声音。