A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

一个好的编辑会理解你在说什么,写什么,不会干涉太多。

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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

从前,有一位王后,她有一个非常丑、非常畸形的儿子。不过,他出生时的一位仙女说,尽管如此,他还是会非常和蔼可亲的,因为他有非常好的判断力。

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

导演、制片人可以让你看起来很好,也可以让你看起来很差。

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

一个不写作的作家是一个追求疯狂的怪物。