If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

  • -- Joyce Carol Oates 乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨

如果你是一名作家,你会把自己置身于一堵沉默的墙后,无论你在做什么,开车、散步还是做家务,你都可以写作,因为你有这样的空间。

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I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

我甚至没有学习最新的词典中所建立的定义。我不是编字典的。我是一个词典编纂者不得不应付的人。我是语言发展的活生生的证据。

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.

当你放下你本应该做的好事,把你做过的坏事抛诸脑后——好吧,这就是回忆录。

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

我看着妈妈把生命浪费在家务上,发誓我永远不会那样做。戴夫做饭。

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

我是一个家庭主妇:我花在家务上的时间比花在其他任何事情上的时间都多。