I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

  • -- Mary Oliver 玛丽·奥利弗

我喜欢福楼拜关于强烈观察事物的那句话。我认为我们作为作家的责任不是从我们自己的感受开始的,而是从观察的能力开始的。