Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

  • -- Claude Debussy 克劳德·德彪西

艺术创造规则;规则不构成艺术品。

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I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

我开始写作的时候,只是做一些与写作相关的小事情,而不是写作本身。我不知道怎么写小说。所以我做新闻是因为我可以学到一些规则。你可以教别人写新闻故事。他们可能写得不好,但你可以很容易地教他们。

Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.

尽可能地遵守规则。当你打破它们的时候,会更让人惊讶。

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

我们乐意使别人十全十美,但我们不能改正自己的错误。

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

这是作者的工作,使它积极。我的工作就是把它变成现实。