You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

  • -- Lisa Scottoline 丽莎·斯科特林

你不必死后才写一部经典,你也不必为了聪明而去写文学作品。

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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

每一本书,都是凭直觉感觉出来的,就小说而言,都是凭直觉做出来的,都是站在过去的基础上,并从中成长起来的。我觉得在我文学生涯的任何阶段,都可以说上一本书包含了其他所有的内容。

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

聪明的人会犯错误,并从中吸取教训,从此不再犯同样的错误。但聪明的人会找到聪明的人,并向他学习如何完全避免错误。

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

有一位智者曾经说过,在世界上最高的宝座上,我们所坐的只是我们自己的屁股。

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

如果艺术把自己与一个对象联系起来,它就变成描述性的、区分性的、文学性的。