Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

  • -- Mel Brooks 梅尔·布鲁克斯

每个人的皮肤下都住着几百个人。作家的才能在于,他能够赋予他们独立的名字、身份、个性,并让他们与与他生活在一起的其他人物联系起来。

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I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

我很快就写了很多东西:一页又一页的笔记,开始看起来很不连贯。大部分都是从广播中截取的,因为作为一名家长,我突然要面对每天每时每刻都在播报新闻的广播。

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

我通过勤奋和实践所取得的成就,任何具有相当天赋和能力的人也能取得。

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

戏剧天赋不是写作天赋,而是表达人际关系的能力。

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

当你读到一篇你欣赏的文章时,给作者写一封感谢信。

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

我只是写歌表达我的感受或者我认识的人的感受。

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

我喜欢好的作家不是他说什么,而是他低声说什么。