Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

  • -- Julia Cameron 卡梅伦

艺术不是凭空想出来的东西。它是相反的-得到一些东西下来。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

有时候世界看起来像一个大洞。你一辈子都在大喊大叫,而你听到的只是一些白痴在洞里大喊废话的回声。

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

在我们对相反的不真实陈述有一个清晰的概念之前,我们永远不会完全理解任何真实陈述的含义。

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

阅读、思考和交谈有不同的规则。写作融合了这三者。