What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

作家所能做的,小说家、诗人或随笔作家所能做的,就是让人们重新认识到自己的人性。

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

对于那些真正喜欢研究人的人来说,小说比其他任何一种文学形式都更有趣的原因在于,在小说中,作者可以真实地说出真相,而不会让自己蒙羞。

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

传记是一个非常明确的地域,它以历史为北,以小说为南,以讣告为东,以沉闷为西。