Literature is the fire that keeps us human in an inhuman world.
文學(xué)是在非人的世界中保持我們?nèi)诵缘幕鹧妗?/div>
The writer must be a smuggler of truths, a clandestine agent of freedom.
作家必須是真理的走私者,自由的秘密特工。
The novel is the art of the unfinished, the unresolved.
小說是未完成、未解決的藝術(shù)。
A great novel is a conversation between the author and the reader across time and space.
偉大的小說是作者與讀者跨越時空的對話。
The writer’s true homeland is language.
作家真正的祖國是語言。
The novel is a weapon against fanaticism and intolerance.
小說是對抗狂熱和不寬容的武器。
Literature is the art of making the invisible visible.
文學(xué)是讓不可見的東西變得可見的藝術(shù)。
The writer must be a perpetual beginner, always doubting, always searching.
作家必須是一個永遠的初學(xué)者,總是懷疑,總是探索。
The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.
小說是所有藝術(shù)形式中最民主的,因為它只依賴于讀者的想象力。
To write is to choose between silence and lies.
寫作就是在沉默和謊言之間做出選擇。