Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
What literature needs most to tell and investigate today are humanity's basic fears: the fear of being left outside, and the fear of counting for nothing, and the feelings of worthlessness that come with such fears.
當(dāng)今文學(xué)最需要講述和探究的是人類(lèi)的基本恐懼:被排斥在外的恐懼,無(wú)足輕重的恐懼,以及隨之而來(lái)的無(wú)價(jià)值感。
The city is like a great palimpsest, a manuscript that has been written and rewritten over the centuries.
城市就像一張巨大的重寫(xiě)羊皮紙,幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來(lái)被反復(fù)書(shū)寫(xiě)和重寫(xiě)。
The writer's secret is not inspiration—for it is never clear where it comes from—but stubbornness, endurance.
作家的秘密不是靈感——因?yàn)殪`感從何而來(lái)永遠(yuǎn)是個(gè)謎——而是固執(zhí)和耐力。
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
作家就是那種花上數(shù)年耐心地試圖發(fā)現(xiàn)自己內(nèi)心第二個(gè)存在的人,以及那個(gè)造就了他的世界。
The measure of a good book is determined by how much it disturbs the reader.
一本好書(shū)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)在于它能在多大程度上擾亂讀者的心緒。