Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

  • -- Elizabeth George 伊丽莎白·乔治

很多人想要写作;他们不想写作。换句话说,他们希望看到自己的名字出现在一本书的封面上,而他们微笑的照片出现在书的背面。但这是工作结束时的情况,而不是刚开始的时候。

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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

坐下来,把你脑子里想的都写下来,然后你就成了作家。但是,一个作家能够毫无怜悯地判断自己作品的价值,并摧毁其中的大部分。

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

我们必须谦虚地承认,发明并不在于从虚无中创造,而在于从混沌中创造。

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

当你整天处理书的时候,每一本新书都是一个朋友和一个诱惑。

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

许多富人只不过是他们财产的看门人。

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

要么所有的灯都关了,要么一个内部的灯不见了。

I believe people can move things with their minds.

我相信人们可以用他们的思想来改变事物。