The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  • -- John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

创造性的作家不仅是生活的受害者,也是生活的使用者;在他的作品中,他能够控制自我表现,而事实上,他的自我表现是受上千次事故的摆布。

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

一本书好的部分可能只是一个作家偶然听到的,也可能是他整个该死的生活的毁灭,而其中的一部分和另一部分一样好。

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

我想做我自己,做我生来要做的——不是要有一个“职业”,而是要成为一个直截了当、明显无误的动物,一个作家。