Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

  • -- Ellen Hopkins 艾伦·霍普金斯

非小说类作品与头脑对话。小说能打动人心。诗歌与灵魂对话。这是美的本质。痛苦的本质。它使人赏心悦目。

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Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

正如在小说中一样,幽默在诗歌中也是一条优美的线。我只是觉得它更难写。也很难保持读者的尊重。

The novel, if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age we live in.

这部小说可以说是一部现代史,是对我们所处时代社会环境的准确而完整的再现。

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

人类思想的一切努力都不能耗尽一只苍蝇的精华。

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense.

爱是永恒的;外表可能改变,但本质永远不变。