"The beauty of literature lies in its ability to make the invisible visible, to give voice to the voiceless, and to illuminate the darkest corners of the human soul."
文學(xué)的美在于它能夠使不可見的東西變得可見,為無聲者發(fā)聲,并照亮人類靈魂最黑暗的角落。
"To write is to struggle and to resist; to write is to become; to write is to draw a map of the world that has not yet been explored."
寫作是斗爭(zhēng)和抵抗;寫作是成為;寫作是繪制尚未被探索的世界地圖。
"A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road."
小說是一面沿著大路攜帶的鏡子。有時(shí)它向你展示天空的藍(lán)色,有時(shí)則是路上攪動(dòng)的泥濘。
"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
文學(xué)是發(fā)現(xiàn)普通人身上非凡之處的藝術(shù),用普通的語言表達(dá)非凡的東西。
"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You wouldn't take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."
寫作是一種樂觀的行為。如果你覺得它不重要,你就不會(huì)費(fèi)心去做。
真正的發(fā)現(xiàn)之旅不在于尋找新的風(fēng)景,而在于擁有新的眼光。
"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds."
唯一真正的發(fā)現(xiàn)之旅,唯一永恒的青春之泉,不是去訪問陌生的土地,而是擁有其他的眼睛,通過另一個(gè)、一百個(gè)其他人的眼睛來觀察宇宙,觀察他們每個(gè)人所看到的一百個(gè)宇宙。
"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is hardly likely to look out."
一本書是一面鏡子:如果一只猿猴看進(jìn)去,一個(gè)使徒幾乎不可能看出去。
"In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."
在文學(xué)中,就像在愛情中一樣,我們會(huì)對(duì)別人所選擇的東西感到驚訝。
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
寫作是一種不被中斷的談話方式。
"The true journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."