I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

  • -- Jack Clifford Smith 杰克·克利福德·史密斯

我宁愿在抢劫银行时被抓住,也不愿从另一个作家那里偷走哪怕一个两个字的短语。

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Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"

语言是与其他生命的联系。我看到一个词,它说的是我注意到的、看到的、感觉到的、观察到的东西,我把它捕捉下来;“我需要那个词!”

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.

写作是美丽的,就像穿上一套金衣服,然后穿着它睡觉。