希拉里·曼特爾
兩次獲得布克獎(jiǎng)的英國(guó)作家
The past is not dead. It is not even past.
過(guò)去并沒(méi)有死去。它甚至還沒(méi)有過(guò)去。
History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
歷史不是過(guò)去。它是我們進(jìn)化出來(lái)的組織我們對(duì)過(guò)去的無(wú)知的方法。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"A good book is an event in my life."
一本好書(shū)是我生命中的一個(gè)事件。
"The dead are invisible, they are not absent."
死者是看不見(jiàn)的，但他們并不缺席。
"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say."
你寫(xiě)作不是因?yàn)槟阆胍f(shuō)些什么；你寫(xiě)作是因?yàn)槟阌性?huà)要說(shuō)。
"The task of the novelist is to awaken the reader's sympathy, to make the reader care."
小說(shuō)家的任務(wù)是喚醒讀者的同情，讓讀者關(guān)心。
"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
歷史不是過(guò)去——它是我們組織對(duì)過(guò)去無(wú)知的方法。
"When you are writing, you are trying to find out something which you don't know."
當(dāng)你寫(xiě)作時(shí)，你試圖發(fā)現(xiàn)一些你不知道的東西。
"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence."
過(guò)去是一個(gè)參考的地方，而不是居住的地方。