优文网

You are either born a writer or you are not.

  • -- Cormac McCarthy 麦卡锡

你不是天生就是作家。

标签

Writer Either Writing

相关名言

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作，否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。

阅读 +

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

事实上，人们认为当你卖了很多书，你不是一个严肃的作家，这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时，我有点生气。

阅读 +

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.

我不会把门锁上，也不会把门闩上，如果外面大厅里的照片里有哪个老家伙想从他们的相框里出来友好地聊天。

阅读 +

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

信件必须通过两项测试才能被归类为优秀:它们必须同时表达写信人和收信人的个性。

阅读 +

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

在电影中，我们倾向于把事情弄得黑白分明:你要么是这个，要么是那个。

阅读 +

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

写作是彻底的孤独，坠入自己冰冷的深渊。

阅读 +

热门话题