Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

学者们喜欢对一部作品进行理论分析，但每一本书都在吞噬作者，是他或她的世界的总和。

-- Jeanette Winterson 温特森