Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  • -- A. A. Milne 米尔恩

思想可能会随波逐流,但不会随波逐流。 我得去拿。我知道没有任何工作的体力或脑力能与之相比 无中生有的想法带来的令人心碎的痛苦。

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There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

应该有两个主要目标在普通的散文:传达一个信息,包括任何会分散读者的注意力或检查他的习惯性的阅读速度,他应该觉得他是坐在缓解在出租车上,通过交通不是骑着马气质。

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

创造力只是常规活动的一个加号。当实干家关心把事情做好或做得更好时,任何活动都会变得富有创造性。

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

我的角色都是虚构的。有时候我从真实的人那里得到一些想法,但是我的角色总是只存在于我的脑海中。

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

毛毛虫身上没有任何东西告诉你它会变成蝴蝶。

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

作家是能从答案中猜出谜语的人。

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

上帝永远把我们从不成熟的想法中屏蔽出来。