If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

如果他们不读书,如果他们不爱读书;如果他们不强迫自己阅读,我不认为他们是真正的作家。

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The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

同样的角色不断出现,超越生命,在他们做事情的方式中找到他们自己的完整性,即使这会导致他们自己的死亡。

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

我为我的学位写了一本小说,我很高兴我没有把它交给出版商。我很同情我的教授们,他们不得不读这本书。

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

我发现民间传说有趣的地方在于它给我们提供了与几个世纪前的说书人的对话。

I read because one life isn't enough.

我读书是因为一次生命是不够的。