A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

  • -- Edna St. Vincent Millay 埃德娜·圣文森特·米莱

出版一本书的人在公共场合故意不穿裤子。

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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

我在作家的房间里待过几次,但事实是我们有这么好的写作团队,我不想把花生酱的指纹印在任何东西上。

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

单词和句子是复习的主题;段落和整篇文章都是先见之明的主题。

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

也许我花在情感上的时间比其他人要多,也许这就是我最终写作的原因。

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

有时我在想,作家写作的动机是不是应该是轻蔑,而不是钦佩。