The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
最好的书……是那些告诉你你已经知道的事情的书。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
文学是发现普通人身上非凡之处的艺术，用普通的语言说出非凡的事情。
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
你不是因为想说些什么而写作，你是因为有些东西要说而写作。
The act of writing is an act of optimism.
写作的行为是一种乐观的行为。
I write to find out what I think.
我写作是为了找出我的想法。
A good book is an event in my life.
一本好书是我生命中的一个事件。
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。
I think that's the single most important thing about writing: it's about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
我认为这是写作中最重要的单一事情：它使熟悉的事物变得陌生，使陌生的事物变得熟悉。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
过去是一个异国他乡；他们在那里做事的方式不同。
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
写作是唯一一件当我做它时，我不觉得我应该在做其他事情的事情。