Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

把你的作文通读一遍,当你遇到一篇你认为特别好的文章时,把它删掉。

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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

如果你是一名作家,你会把自己置身于一堵沉默的墙后,无论你在做什么,开车、散步还是做家务,你都可以写作,因为你有这样的空间。

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

我和西蒙交谈,给他写信。我从来没有写过日记。但是现在我正在给他写日记。我想不仅仅是我,还有很多人,家人和朋友,仍然能感受到他的存在。

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

你知道,有时候我在写东西的时候得到了灵感,然后任务似乎很艰巨,让我有点害怕。

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

我经常被指责把人类学变成文学,但人类学也是实地研究。写作是它的核心。