Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

  • -- Vanna Bonta 范娜·邦塔

大多数时候我引用自己的话。这不是傲慢,这是作家的工作。

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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

事实上,人们认为当你卖了很多书,你不是一个严肃的作家,这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时,我有点生气。

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

一个民族的谚语、寓言、俗语和名言,使智者的智慧和时代的经验永垂不朽。

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

作者可能知道他写一本书的意思,但是他应该马上忘记他写这本书的意思。

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

每一件伟大的艺术作品都有两面,一面朝向它自己的时代,一面朝向未来,朝向永恒。

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

我把这封信写得比平常长,只是因为我没有时间把它写得短些。

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

那些引文真的很模糊。任何人都看得出他是一个博览群书的人。

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

你永远不需要改变你半夜起来写的东西。

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

我学会了时间管理、组织和优先事项。