"To write is to walk on the edge of the unspeakable."
寫作是行走在不可言說之物的邊緣。
"The most powerful stories are those that ask questions, not those that give answers."
最有力的故事是那些提出問題,而非給出答案的故事。
"A story is a living thing; it grows with each telling."
故事是有生命的東西;它隨著每一次講述而生長。
"The blank page is both the writer’s greatest fear and greatest hope."
空白頁既是作家最大的恐懼,也是最大的希望。
"Writing is the closest thing we have to magic."
寫作是我們最接近魔法的事物。
"The story you don’t write is the one that haunts you."
你不寫的故事,就是那個(gè)縈繞你的故事。
"The best writing is that which makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar."
最好的寫作是使熟悉的事物陌生化,使陌生的事物熟悉化。
"A book is a conversation between the writer and the reader across time."
一本書是作家與讀者跨越時(shí)間的對話。
"The world is made of stories, not atoms."
世界由故事構(gòu)成,而非原子。