Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  • -- Logan Pearsall Smith 洛根·皮尔索尔·史密斯

每一个作家,无论多么谦虚,都把一种最令人发指的虚荣心像疯子一样锁在他胸间的软垫里。

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Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

写任何东西都是非常困难的,但是,唉,对我来说,因为我上瘾了,有很多乐趣。我经常后悔我曾经开始写散文,因为它是如此的困难。但是我停不下来。

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

良好的判断力既是写作的首要原则,也是写作的源泉。