I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

我相信我的直觉能找到主题,我凭直觉写作。我有一个想法,当我开始,我有一个形状;但只有在几年之后,我才能完全理解我所写的东西。

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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

数学作为人类思维的一种表达方式,反映了人类积极的意志、沉思的理性和对审美完美的渴望。其基本要素是逻辑与直觉、分析与建构、共性与个性。

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

如果你是一名作家,你会把自己置身于一堵沉默的墙后,无论你在做什么,开车、散步还是做家务,你都可以写作,因为你有这样的空间。

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

发现这些基本定律没有逻辑的方法。只有一种直觉的方法,那就是感觉表象背后的秩序。

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

爱包含一种特殊的深不可测的理解和误解的结合。

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

还有一件事要记住:作家总是在出卖别人。

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

创造力与汤中厨师的数量成反比。

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

我想让人们明白我确实有些个性。

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

创造力的本质是不怕失败。