Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

小说和散文可以为理论上的陌生人创造同理心。

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The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

写小说最难的部分是找到很长的时间来写作:对我来说,这意味着大部分时间都要在周六和周日写作。但我总是在想我的角色,在偷来的瞬间写下我的想法,希望周末到来时我能弄懂它们。

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

难道还有比我们对视片刻更伟大的奇迹发生吗?

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

不再有小说或非小说;只有叙事。

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

愤怒和偏执是正确理解的敌人。