作为一个作家的巨大优势是你可以窥探人们。你在那里,听着每一个字,但你的一部分在观察。对作家来说,一切都是有用的,每一片碎片,甚至是最长最无聊的午餐会。
"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
没有人值得你流泪,值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。