You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

  • -- Katherine Anne Porter 凯瑟琳·安·波特

你不能写教科书之外的人物,你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而,语言的含义和暗示,以及它的含意,都能吸引最高的智力。

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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

写作的灵感?也许与其说是灵感,不如说是写作的需要。当我有一段时间没写东西的时候,我会感到发痒、内疚和不满。我有了一些想法,需要把它们写下来。

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

我们的语言明智地感受到了独处的两面性。它创造了“孤独”这个词来表达孤独的痛苦。它创造了“孤独”这个词来表达独处的荣耀。

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.

习惯上,我可能会把这种制度化的消遣写得好像它存在于一般的环境之外,但我的故事不适合这样的处理。

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

我真的想领养一个孩子……我想被称为“妈妈”。“它真的是英语中最美的单词。