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 love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only have a chance to do that once or twice in a career.

我喜欢有机会长时间地探索一个部分,真正地越来越深入,因为你在职业生涯中只有一两次这样的机会。

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

你要么写歌,要么不写。如果你真的像我一样写歌,我想人们自然会想要录制唱片。

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day.

“无意识幽默”是我对当代文学的贡献之一。

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

我是一个文学动物。对我来说,一切都以文学结束。

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

第一条也是最重要的戒律是,不要让它们吓到你。

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

我对我所发现的比我所发明的更感兴趣。

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

自我发现的乐趣总是存在的。

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

我希望我能写得像猫一样神秘。