Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before.

  • -- John Kenneth Galbraith 加尔布雷思

对于一个作家来说,没有什么比重复他以前说过的话更有吸引力的了。

相关名言

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

短篇小说集通常被认为是可怕的熟料;对这位想要展示自己年轻时的战利品和鳟鱼蝇的年长作家来说,这是一种强制性的礼貌。

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

焚化炉是作家最好的朋友。