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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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

一个人应该看这个世界,把自己看成是一个善恶平衡的天平。当他做了一件好事,天平就会向好的方向倾斜——他和世界都得救了。当他做了一件坏事时,天平就倾斜到坏的一边——他和世界都毁灭了。

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

作为作者,你总是在歌曲中出现。如果你接近人类的样子,你就在写共同的经历。我们都做着同样的事情,所以如果你钉住了某人,那么你也钉住了自己。

[T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking.

真理只是我们思维方式中的权宜之计,正如权利只是我们思维方式中的权宜之计一样。

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

瞧,别光盯着书页看,”我过去常对学生们说。“成为的人物。活在书里。