菲利普·羅斯
美國文學的巨匠
事實上，正確理解他人根本不是生活的全部意義。
The tyranny of secrecy is the most tyrannical of all tyrannies.
保密的暴政是所有暴政中最暴虐的。
The novel is the great art form of lying in order to tell the truth.
小說是為了講述真相而撒謊的偉大藝術形式。
The best reader is the writer who reads to steal.
最好的讀者是那些為了偷師而閱讀的作家。
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
The writer's life is a life of sentences.
作家的生活是由句子構成的生活。
The terror of art is that you don't know where it's taking you.
藝術的恐怖之處在于你不知道它會把你帶向何方。
You build your life around the truth, and then the truth changes.
你圍繞真相建立生活，然后真相改變了。
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
作家是被激發(fā)模仿欲望的讀者。
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.
寫作的行為是一種樂觀的行為。如果你覺得這無關緊要，你就不會費心去做。