I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

  • -- Peter De Vries 德弗里斯

我喜欢当作家。我不能忍受的是文书工作。

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

艺术家的天性就是过分在意别人对他的评价。文学作品中到处都是一些人的残迹,他们对他人的观点有着超越理性的看法。

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

当乔纳斯回到家,告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天,因为他被鲸鱼吞了。

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

任何优秀的作家都会受到欢迎,也不会受到欢迎;这就是你如何知道你是一个伟大的作家。

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

作家毕竟只是书的一半。另一半是读者,作者从读者那里学习。