It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

  • -- George Plimpton 乔治·普林顿

这也是口述传记的乐趣之一,因为读者,而不是编辑,是陪审团。

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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

任何一个坐下来思考有多少人知道他或她恋爱的真实情况的人,都能看出写传记有多难。

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

我喜欢模糊事实和虚构之间的界限,但又不愿屈尊于读者,让他们陷入某种后现代主义的牢笼。

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

我最大的恐惧是让读者失望,所以每本书都必须比前一本书好。

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

地理是关于地图的,而传记是关于人物的。