One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

  • -- Denise Levertov 丹妮斯·莱维托芙

作家的义务之一就是说或唱出他或她所能唱的,用语言尽可能多地与世界打交道。

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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

至于我的下一本书,我要克制自己不去写它,直到它迫近我的心头:它在我的脑海里变得沉重起来,像一个成熟的梨,挂饰,妊娠期,要求被剪掉,否则它就会掉下来。

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

我为自己和陌生人写作。亲爱的读者,这些陌生人是事后才想到的。