I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

  • -- Maria Semple 玛丽亚·塞姆普

我想,因为我试着让事情尽可能的真实,或者我试着从一个真实的地方开始,我几乎没有想象力去写一本不以我为背景的书。

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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

读书是一种思维敏捷的工作,要求很高,在理想的条件下终于产生一种忘我的境界。这给了阅读体验一种无与伦比的崇高和力量,任何其他形式的沟通。

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

艺术是对现实的严密审视,所以我只把我所知道的发生在我们社会中的事情搬上舞台。

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

我试着让我的书反映我所看到的人性。

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

现实是我们给失望取的名字。