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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I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

我正在花园里写字。要想像花园一样写作,就不能写在花园外面,也不能写在花园附近,而要写在花园里。

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

许多狂热的人写的书就像墓地里的石头一样冰冷、扁平。