There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

  • -- William Gaddis 威廉·加迪斯

没有什么比一个作家站在观众面前读他的作品更令人苦恼或厌倦的了。

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When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

当你开始动笔时,你看到了自己真实的一面,而不是在谈话或思考中流露出来。

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

阅读是唯一的方式,通过阅读,我们不由自主地,往往是无助地,进入他人的皮肤,他人的声音,他人的灵魂。

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

写作的唯一目的是让读者更好地享受生活或更好地忍受生活。

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

我喜欢用第一人称写作,因为我喜欢成为我所写的角色。