Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.

  • -- Mordecai Richler 莫迪凯·里奇勒

从根本上说,所有的写作都是关于同一件事:关于死亡,关于我们在这里所拥有的短暂时光,以及它所带来的挫折感。

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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

每个人的皮肤下都住着几百个人。作家的才能在于,他能够赋予他们独立的名字、身份、个性,并让他们与与他生活在一起的其他人物联系起来。

I wished to photograph the other animals to photograph us, but us from the beginning, the time we lived in equilibrium with nature.

我希望拍摄其他动物来拍摄我们,但我们从一开始,我们生活在与自然平衡的时代。

Self-expression is for babies and seals, where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.

自我表达是为婴儿和海豹准备的,在这些地方会很迷人。作家的职责是影响读者。

I had no idea how big the show was at the time we were doing it because I was always working.

我不知道我们当时的节目有多大,因为我一直在工作。