I am not an autobiographical writer.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

我不是自传体作家。

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

坐下来,把你脑子里想的都写下来,然后你就成了作家。但是,一个作家能够毫无怜悯地判断自己作品的价值,并摧毁其中的大部分。