"The beauty of literature lies in its ability to make the invisible visible, to give voice to the voiceless, and to illuminate the darkest corners of the human soul."

文学的美在于它能够使不可见的东西变得可见，为无声者发声，并照亮人类灵魂最黑暗的角落。

"To write is to struggle and to resist; to write is to become; to write is to draw a map of the world that has not yet been explored."

写作是斗争和抵抗；写作是成为；写作是绘制尚未被探索的世界地图。

"A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road."

小说是一面沿着大路携带的镜子。有时它向你展示天空的蓝色，有时则是路上搅动的泥泞。

"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，用普通的语言表达非凡的东西。

"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You wouldn't take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."

写作是一种乐观的行为。如果你觉得它不重要，你就不会费心去做。

真正的发现之旅不在于寻找新的风景，而在于拥有新的眼光。

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds."

唯一真正的发现之旅，唯一永恒的青春之泉，不是去访问陌生的土地，而是拥有其他的眼睛，通过另一个、一百个其他人的眼睛来观察宇宙，观察他们每个人所看到的一百个宇宙。

"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is hardly likely to look out."

一本书是一面镜子：如果一只猿猴看进去，一个使徒几乎不可能看出去。

"In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."

在文学中，就像在爱情中一样，我们会对别人所选择的东西感到惊讶。

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."

写作是一种不被中断的谈话方式。

"The true journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."