As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

  • -- Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚伍尔夫

至于我的下一本书,我要克制自己不去写它,直到它迫近我的心头:它在我的脑海里变得沉重起来,像一个成熟的梨,挂饰,妊娠期,要求被剪掉,否则它就会掉下来。

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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

我的目标是,尽我最大的努力,把我一生的全部和历史,也就是我的讣告和墓志铭,都写在这句话里。

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

把我从那些说他们的生活方式不重要的作家那里解救出来。我不确定一个坏人能写一本好书,如果艺术不能让我们变得更好,那么它到底是为了什么。