Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

  • -- Aaron Sorkin 阿伦·索尔金

好作家向其他作家学习。伟大的作家直接剽窃他们的作品。

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For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

对我这个作家来说,故事总是比其他任何事情都重要。我从来没有坐下来写东西的时候脑子里想的都是些宽泛的、包罗万象的想法,当然也从来没有一个具体的议程。

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

作为一名作家,你的首要职责是为取悦自己而写作。你对任何人都没有义务。

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

谁借钱快,还钱慢,他们的信用就一文不值,他们就这样高高兴兴地走了。

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

不要借别人的眼镜看自己。