There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

在文学上还有一个伟大的发现,那就是按文学工作者不写作的数量支付报酬。

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I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

我有一个哥哥对文学很感兴趣,所以我很早就接触了文学和戏剧。我父亲有时从事音乐喜剧工作。

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

时间并不能治愈一切。这是一种冷漠和敷衍的态度。有时它根本不会痊愈。有时,似乎没有必要治愈。

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

作家有两种;伟大的人能给你真理,渺小的人只能给你自己。

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

你写的任何东西,即使你不得不重新开始,都是有价值的。我让故事通过人物来表达。

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

如果你写不好音乐,人们就不会听你说什么。

There is no better high than discovery.

没有比发现更高的境界了。

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

我什么也没有发明,我重新发现。

I write-down to speak-up.

我写下来说出来。