As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  • -- Patrick Rothfuss 帕特里克·罗斯福斯

作为作家,绝大多数作家,我们的艺术是描绘人类的处境。试着向你展示成为别人是什么样子,试着让你对别人有感觉。这意味着你必须有高度的同理心。

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

同理心其实是精神吝啬的对立面。这是理解每一场战争的输赢的能力。别人的痛苦和你自己的一样有意义。

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

把你在新闻中听到的做坏事的人描绘成人类是很危险的。但这也是必要和重要的。

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

触摸另一个人的灵魂就是在圣地上行走。