When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

当你从床头柜上拿起一本小说时,你同时放下了自己的生活,在这段时间里你变成了另一个人。

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I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

我经常听到人们说,我去年读了圣经。好吧,那又怎样?我完全赞成通读圣经。但是里面有多少内容呢,还是他们今天又讲了三章?我永远不会怀疑阅读圣经,但冥想是很重要的。

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.

站在这一边是很奇怪的,因为当你开始创业的时候,你似乎已经开始了很长时间,你会敬仰那些已经取得成就的人。你想成为那样的人。

But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.

但有趣的是,现在我处于如此幸福的境地,我更客观地看待自己的过去,看到别人很长时间以来所看到的,我很高兴我能走到这一步。

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

小说的形式总是与其他形式相结合。对我来说,它一直是终极媒介。

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

每隔一段时间,我就能感受到这部小说的巨大力量。但它并没有伴随我。