Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

有创造力的作家总是比他们所代表的事业更伟大。

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My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

如果说我的父亲有什么不同的话,那就是他首先是一个说话算数的人。他爱的故事;确切地说,他不是为故事而活,但我认为他是通过故事而活的。我想,和许多作家一样,他喜欢讲述自己经历过的事情的故事,就像他喜欢亲身经历一样多,甚至更多。

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

就像沙子和牡蛎一样,它是一种创造性的刺激物。在每首诗中,我都试图揭示一个事实,所以它不可能有一个虚构的开头。

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

写作的孤独也是相当可怕的。这是非常接近疯狂,一个人只是消失了一天,失去了联系。

If you're alive, you're creative.

如果你活着,你就是有创造力的。