As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  • -- Patrick Rothfuss 帕特里克·罗斯福斯

作为作家,绝大多数作家,我们的艺术是描绘人类的处境。试着向你展示成为别人是什么样子,试着让你对别人有感觉。这意味着你必须有高度的同理心。

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So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

所以当你全神贯注地听别人说话时,你不仅是在听他说的话,而且是在听他所表达的感情,是在听他说话的全部内容,而不是其中的一部分。

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

如果地球确实变得不适合人类居住,那主要是因为我们对地球和地球上的居民失去了礼貌。

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

把你在新闻中听到的做坏事的人描绘成人类是很危险的。但这也是必要和重要的。