I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

  • -- James Edwin Gunn 詹姆斯·埃德温·冈恩

我不知道成功写作的秘诀是什么,但重要的一步是超越模仿,发现你能写出别人无法写出的东西——也就是说,找出你是谁,然后用合适的叙述和风格来写。

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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

我意识到有一种期待,作家们在这个阶段不可避免地会踌躇不前,他们无法实现自己第一本书成功的承诺,下一本书永远不会像前一本书那样让人满意。它只是增加了我被挑战的感觉。

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

在人们的心中,忠诚和体贴比成功更重要。

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

我以前试着和别人一起写过一次,但是没有成功。

We are all self made but only the successful will admit it.

我们都是自己创造的,但只有成功者才会承认这一点。