Writing has to support itself.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

写作必须自给自足。

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

我认为写作最难的部分是修改。我的意思是这样的:小说家必须先创作出一块大理石,然后再把它凿开,才能找到大理石中的人物。

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

支持同胞反对本国人,但前者可能失策或掠夺。

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

我看到在支持容忍方面表现出极大的不容忍。