Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

有些编辑是失败的作家,但大多数作家也是。

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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

写作的美妙之处在于,你不必像脑外科医生那样,第一次就把事情做好。你总能做得更好,找到准确的词,恰当的短语,跳跃的比喻。

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

现在有很多人读书写字,他们更适合养兔子。

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man.

要写得好,要像普通人一样表达自己,但要像智者一样思考。

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

一个女人要想写小说,就必须有钱,有自己的房间。