Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

  • -- James Richardson 詹姆斯·理查森

只有一半的文字表达了你的意思。另一半是阻止人们阅读他们所期望的你的意思。

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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

对于小说家来说,特定的历史情境就是一个人类学实验室,他在其中探索自己的基本问题:人类存在是什么?

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

你必须学习如何写作与他们无关。让他们认为你生来如此。