The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

原因是,它们定义了我如何开展我的业务。我相信直觉。我一开始就做了。即使现在我也这么做。我不知道事情会如何发展,我的写作下一步会走向何方。

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Intuition and concepts constitute ... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

直觉和概念构成……我们所有知识的要素,因此没有某种程度上对应于它们的直觉的概念,或者没有概念的直觉,都不能产生知识。

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

我的母亲是我生命中的一股强大的力量。战争年代的女人,没有上大学,但应该上大学。非常有趣,非常健谈,非常聪明,非常机智。

You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

你必须训练你的直觉——你必须相信你内心的小声音,它告诉你该说什么,该做什么决定。

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

我喜欢讲故事,随着时间的推移,我对自己的能力越来越有信心。