Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.

  • -- Nora Roberts 诺拉·罗伯茨

每次我听到作家们谈论“缪斯女神”,我就想狠狠地打他们一巴掌。这是一份工作。做你的工作。

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My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

如果说我的父亲有什么不同的话,那就是他首先是一个说话算数的人。他爱的故事;确切地说,他不是为故事而活,但我认为他是通过故事而活的。我想,和许多作家一样,他喜欢讲述自己经历过的事情的故事,就像他喜欢亲身经历一样多,甚至更多。

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

欧洲人在那里提供了很多场地,并向爵士艺术家们致敬,很多音乐家去了那里,在那里呆了很长时间。很多人搬到那里,住在那里,然后死在那里。

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

我不是个擅于休息的人。我假期过得很糟糕。它来自那段我不工作的时期。那真是最糟糕的部分。

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

一个作家在写作时猝不及防,因为他所使用的材料是如此的危险,他可以预料到痛苦会像雷击一样迅速。