Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. 小说写作是一个人想要做任何事情，但仍然可以代写的唯一地方。 -- Richard Powers 理查德·鲍尔斯
Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time! 五分钟!咄!我这辈子都迟到了五分钟! -- Hannah Cowley 汉娜·考利
A good writer is always a people watcher. 一个好的作家总是善于观察别人。 -- Judy Blume 朱迪·布鲁姆
You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away. 你很幸运，我今晚不能唱歌，因为我可能会忘乎所以。 -- Julie Harris 朱莉·哈里斯
I don't think I have achieved anything that I can really be proud of. 我认为我没有取得任何真正值得骄傲的成就。 -- Aung San Suu Kyi 昂山素季
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. 这就是学习。你突然明白了一件你一生都明白的事情，但是以一种全新的方式。 -- Doris Lessing 多丽丝·莱辛
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. 我感兴趣的是你所说的方言写作，把你和一个地方联系起来的写作。 -- Calvin Trillin 卡尔文·特里林
Women will change the corporation more than we expect. 女性对公司的改变比我们预期的要大。 -- Anita Borg 安妮塔·伯格
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men. 世上没有危险的女人;世上只有易受影响的人。 -- Joseph Wood Krutch 美国作家克勒奇
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes. 我的灵魂在下雨，我的眼睛在下雨。 -- Guillaume Apollinaire 阿波利奈尔