Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  • -- Flannery O'Connor 奥康纳

无论我走到哪里,都会有人问我,我是否认为大学扼杀了作家。我的观点是,他们没有扼杀足够多的。有许多畅销书本可以被一个好老师阻止。

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Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

写任何东西都是非常困难的,但是,唉,对我来说,因为我上瘾了,有很多乐趣。我经常后悔我曾经开始写散文,因为它是如此的困难。但是我停不下来。

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

正如在小说中一样,幽默在诗歌中也是一条优美的线。我只是觉得它更难写。也很难保持读者的尊重。

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

很少有好书被写出来的原因是很少有人会写任何东西。

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

“安乐死”是一个很好的安慰词!我很感激发明它的人。

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

写作不是一种职业,而是一种不快乐的职业。

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

我们根据读过的每一个故事来写作。