And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

  • -- Sandra Cisneros 桑德拉·西斯内罗斯

写小说的好处是,你可以慢慢来,有时花九年的时间和角色坐在一起,深入地观察一个场景,不像在现实生活中,我们只是简单地拍出一些东西。

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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

在我那个时代,或者在任何时候,最伟大的苏族人,就是那个了不起的老武人,坐着的公牛。

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

接受批评。如果你不把你的工作交给别人批评,也不接受别人的批评,也就是说,你要认真地思考和关注它,那么你永远都不会进步。

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

灵感是诗人为了显示自己的重要性而发明的一场闹剧。

It is essential to do the same subject over again, ten times, a hundred times.

同样的题目要重复做十遍,一百遍,这是很重要的。