There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

写小说有三条规则。不幸的是,没有人知道它们是什么。

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Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

不幸的是,当你是一个演员的时候,你必须表演。你不可能坐在客厅、卧室、书房或其他地方独自行动。它需要有人回应。

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

也许我不为任何人写作。也许孩子们在雪地里乱写名字的时候是为同一个人写的。

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

很容易证明,糟糕的写作从来没有阻止过学术论文的发表。

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

她失去了谈话的艺术,但不幸的是,她没有失去说话的能力。