Learn as much by writing as by reading.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

从写作和阅读中学到的东西一样多。

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Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

奇怪的是,他们花了这么多年才明白一个简单的事实:前方的奖赏、下一份工作、出版、恋爱、婚姻似乎总是掌握着获得满足感的关键,但从长远来看,这些都不够。

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

如果你写一个基于真实人物的故事,你会被真实人物和他的生活细节所困。它妨碍了你写自己的故事。

I think it's possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time you've realized something, it's too late.

我认为这是可以学习的。问题是我们学得太慢了,当你意识到一些事情的时候,已经太晚了。

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

当一个男人发现这样的女人,他会为她全力以赴,因为他知道她不会让他失望。

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

我死的时候,愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的,他的书是被人诵读的。’

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

有很多糟糕的编辑试图把自己的观点强加在一本书上。