I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

  • -- Brian Selznick 布赖恩·塞尔兹尼克

我可以用铅笔画出运动的物体,但如果我在写作,我就会纠结于如何去写。那个男孩跑过走廊?男孩飞快地跑下走廊。男孩跑下大理石走廊?我为这些话而苦恼。所以我的编辑工作非常努力。我很幸运有她。

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Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.

有时候我写心情,我想每隔几天写一首歌。有时我可能三周不写一首歌。这取决于当时它对我的打击。

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

艺术的纪律是理解自己的根本斗争,就像理解一个人在画什么一样。

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

一个人不仅希望在写作时被理解;一个人当然不希望被人理解。

Struggle and strife come before success; even in the dictionary.

成功之前必有斗争;甚至在字典里。