The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

  • -- Albert Camus 阿尔伯特·加缪

作家的目的是防止文明自我毁灭。

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Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

有才能的人对语言的处理和使用赋予语言价值,与其说是通过创新,不如说是通过提供更有活力和更多样化的服务,通过拉伸和弯曲语言。

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

一开始我很挣扎。我说我要写下真相,上帝保佑我。我想我是。我发现我不能。没有人能写出绝对的真理。

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

诗歌是它自己的媒介;这和写散文很不一样。诗歌可以以意象的方式说话,它有独特的捕捉环境的方式。

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

我可以给任何一个对写作感兴趣的人一个建议:阅读!我认为做一个读者比做一个作家重要得多!