In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

  • -- Mohsin Hamid 莫欣·哈米德

在写文学小说时,你是在帮助自己。读者阅读文学小说不仅仅是为了娱乐,而是因为他们觉得会有别的事情发生;这种经历会让他们超越自我,向他们展示一些他们从未见过的东西。

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I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

我从小没有电视。这意味着我读了很多书,娱乐自己。

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

勇气是发现自己可能不会成功,当你知道自己可能会失败时,仍然去尝试。

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

在试图爬出一个洞时,它有时会把洞挖得更深。