Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

去图书馆是我们未经允许就可以去的地方。他们让我们选择我们想读什么。这是一种让一本书完全属于我的感觉。

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

我最近为我的书做了大卫莱特曼秀。他很严肃,不开玩笑,这让我有点措手不及。他比记者们听到的一些笑话要严肃得多。

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

我不认为任何一本好书是建立在事实经验的基础上的。坏书是作者在写之前就已经知道的东西。

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

我不再感到创作小说的压力。