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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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

我写作是因为我喜欢创造东西,我唯一擅长的是用文字创造东西。

Speak when you are angry -- and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

当你生气的时候说出来——你会做出你会后悔的最好的演讲。

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

当心灵说话时,它的语言在任何纬度下都是一样的。

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

我希望我能写得像猫一样神秘。