The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

  • -- Richard Harding Davis 理查德·哈丁·戴维斯

好的写作的秘诀是用一种新的方式说一件旧的事情或者用一种旧的方式说一件新的事情。

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The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.

总部的老军士把我当儿子看待,对我所做的和所写的一切都感到无比自豪。他现在经常派我到某些地方去,我总是像我这样的小绅士一样服从命令。

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

对每个男人来说,最伟大的生活经历就是他对女人的历险。男人在女人身上拥抱一切不是他自己的东西,从那个结果,从那个拥抱,每一个新的行动。

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

我想如果我要写一部科幻小说,我要走一条我想走的新道路。

I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.

我保持沉默,这样我才能写作。当我的舌头摇动时,我的手指是沉默的。

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

以旧换旧,以新换新。

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

一本好书不是写出来的,而是重写出来的。