Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

  • -- Catherine Drinker Bowen 包恩

作家很少选择那些自成一体的人物作为朋友,他们从不惹麻烦,从不不开心或生病,从不犯错误,总是在别人给他们找钱的时候数数。

相关名言

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

这是典型的作家所做的;我们大多数时间只是坐在那里抱怨。事情进展得越好,他们的抱怨就越多。

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

我不再有任何幻想。摇滚能改变一切的幻想——我不相信。我已经改变了。

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

我写作完全是为了发现我在想什么,我在看什么,我看到了什么,它意味着什么。我想要什么,我害怕什么。

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

如果我们想在友谊中建立一个坚实的基础,我们就必须为了朋友而不是为了我们自己而爱朋友。

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

我们非常孤立,远离男朋友和朋友,所以我们必须坚强、聪明和非常专业。

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

对我来说,一本书就是上帝传达给人类的信息;或者,如果没有,就永远不应该出版。

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

如果我们不改变我们前进的方向,我们最终将会到达我们要去的地方。

Each of them is a book through which other books dream.

每一本书都是其他书梦寐以求的。