"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone."

成为一名作家就是在每一天的寒冷时分坐在桌前写作；而不是等待天才的蓝色火焰从胸骨中喷涌而出。

"The books that help you most are those which make you think the most."

对你帮助最大的书是那些让你思考最多的书。

"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的时候，我不会觉得我应该在做其他事情的事情。

"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it."

世界充满了光明和生命，真正的罪恶是对此不感兴趣。

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

故事是作者写给自己的一封信，用来告诉自己那些无法通过其他方式发现的事情。

"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."

只有那些心智极其脆弱的人才会拒绝受文学和诗歌的影响。

"The past is always tense, the future perfect."

过去总是紧张的，而未来是完美的。

"We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game."

我们都是拼凑而成的，构造如此无形且多样，以至于每一部分、每一刻都在进行自己的游戏。

"Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even."

记忆是一种成就，甚至是一种更新。

"Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle."

每一次旅程都隐藏着另一段旅程：未选择的路和被遗忘的角度。