If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

如果你在生活中专注于自律,那么你在写作时就会比在和朋友一起玩或从事其他工作时更聪明。

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I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

我最开心的时候是在家和孩子们一起玩……拥有一个家庭一直是我的可取之处,因为我不会在任何事情上反反复复地工作,也不会带着罪恶感和对我永远见不到的家人的担忧早早地进入坟墓。

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

你和一个女人有身体上的关系,而你和其他人没有,但那不是爱。爱是一种精神上的东西。

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

我想写一个小前言,说历史毕竟是建立在人们的回忆之上的,而这些回忆是随着时间而变化的。

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

每个作家的天职都是描述他或她所看到的世界;比这更重要的是广告。

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

我找不到比粘在自己骨头上更甜的脂肪了。