And to accept that - to quote him - "it shoots, it hits".

引用作者的话，便是，箭在射，箭打中了靶心。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If there is a balance of power between the writer and the reader in this little vignette, the power really I think finally resides with the writer.

如果作者和读者之间,存在力量平衡的话,我觉得最后力量肯定归于作者一方。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We don't refer--we have no reason to refer, - if we respect the autonomy of the poem as such, we don't refer-- we don't appeal to an authorial intention.

我们不能，我是说如果我们尊重，诗歌的意志自由的话，我们不能也没有理由-,为诗歌加上作者的意图。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's a problem if we reject the police-like authority of authors, of whom we may have a certain suspicion on those grounds, when we certainly don't feel that way about Marx and Freud.

但若我们并不喜欢马克思和弗洛伊德，那么如果我们排斥警察，就好像因为对作者有所怀疑，而排斥作者权威的话，就有问题了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选