I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

  • -- Stephen Greenblatt 格林布拉特

我认为写文学作品应该给人带来乐趣。还应该讲些什么呢?它不是核物理。它必须给人带来快乐,否则就一文不值。

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Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

在我看来,没有作家在写作过程中不经历痛苦,就不会有好的作品。写作应该是一种乐趣,但除非你在写小说的过程中多次感到几乎崩溃,否则你还没有给自己足够的压力。

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时,我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外,没有取得任何更大的成就。

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

一个不能写诗的时代,除了颓废者的聪明才智之外,什么文学也不能写。

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

独处的一半乐趣来自于和一些朋友在一起,我们可以说孤独是多么甜蜜。