I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

  • -- Paullina Simons 西蒙斯

我对写作有一种特定的情感,它来自于我知道两件事:作为一个读者,我喜欢读什么;作为一个作家,我能做什么。我知道自己的极限。我知道有些事我做不到。

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

我可以原谅,但我不能忘记,只是另一种说法,我不会原谅。宽恕应该像一张作废的便条——撕成两半,烧掉,这样它就永远不会对一个人显现出来。

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

无论他们的罪行的性质如何或可能发生的任何改造,这些前重罪犯都不能参加这个伟大国家的决策进程。

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

如果写作的欲望没有伴随着真正的写作,那么写作的欲望就一定是不写的。

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

小说写作无疑是我所知道的最累人的工作。