A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  • -- Karl Kraus 卡尔·克劳斯

作家是能从答案中猜出谜语的人。

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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

写作有透视法、明暗法,就像绘画或音乐一样。如果你生下来就知道这些,那很好。如果没有,学习他们。然后根据自己的需要重新排列规则。

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

每一个作家,无论多么谦虚,都把一种最令人发指的虚荣心像疯子一样锁在他胸间的软垫里。