Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

  • -- Katherine Mansfield 凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德

回首往事,我想我一直在写作。那也是胡扯。但写胡言乱语或任何事,任何事,总比什么都不写要好得多。

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

一个人要想成为伟大的好人,就必须有强烈而全面的想象;他必须把自己放在别人和许多其他人的位置上;人类的痛苦和快乐必须成为人类自己的。

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

写小说并不仅仅是一次跨越边境的购物之旅,而是在想象中的工厂、街道和大教堂里度过数小时甚至数年的时间。

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.

作家的目的是防止文明自我毁灭。

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.

我认识一些使用潜台词的作家,他们都是懦夫。