A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

写一本好书和写一本坏书一样费力,它发自作者的灵魂深处。

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Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling in the dark, and you don't know where the story is going to lead.

作家在谈论写作的乐趣时,有时会感到尴尬,但起草往往是真正令人愉快的。通常,你在黑暗中跌跌撞撞,你不知道故事的走向。

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

我就像一本书,由于没有用处而粘在一起:我的思想需要打开包装,而储存在里面的真理必须不时翻看,以便在需要的时候随时准备好。

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

我认为写作与生活并无二致。写作是一种双重生活,作者经历每件事两次。一次在现实中,一次在那面永远在前方或后方等待的镜子里。

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

也许每个人都有一本书在里面,虽然它可能不是一本很好的书。

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

我以前试着和别人一起写过一次,但是没有成功。

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

一个女人要想写小说,就必须有钱,有自己的房间。