The best literature is that which makes us see the world anew.
最好的文學(xué)是讓我們重新看世界的文學(xué)。
The writer must be a voice for the voiceless.
作家必須成為無聲者的聲音。
The novel is the art of the possible impossible.
小說是可能的不可能的藝術(shù)。
Literature is the most effective weapon against fanaticism.
文學(xué)是對抗狂熱的最有效武器。
A great novel is a mirror and a window: it shows us ourselves and the world.
偉大的小說是一面鏡子和一扇窗戶:它向我們展示我們自己與世界。
The writer must be a defender of the marginal, the forgotten, the defeated.
作家必須是被邊緣化的人、被遺忘的人、被擊敗的人的捍衛(wèi)者。
The novel is a rebellion against the limits of reality.
小說是對現(xiàn)實(shí)界限的反叛。
Literature is the most subversive of all arts because it works in secret, in the reader’s mind.
文學(xué)是所有藝術(shù)中最具顛覆性的,因為它在讀者的頭腦中秘密運(yùn)作。
The best stories are those that haunt us long after we finish reading.
最好的故事是那些在我們讀完很久之后仍縈繞在心頭的故事。
The writer must be a witness to history, even if history ignores him.
作家必須是歷史的見證者,即使歷史忽視他。