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。

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

没有人因为把别人往下拉而达到很高的境界。聪明的商人不会打败他的竞争对手。明智的工人不为与他一起工作的人工作。不要攻击你的朋友。不要攻击你的敌人。不要把你自己。

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

我对创意写作程序了解不多。但如果他们不教,他们就不会说真话,第一,写作是一项艰苦的工作,第二,你必须放弃大量的生活,你的个人生活,才能成为一名作家。

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

语言有毁灭和治愈的力量。当语言既真实又善良时,它们可以改变我们的世界。

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

书籍选择作者;创造的行为并不完全是理性的和有意识的。

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

现在,我们正生活在人生的丑陋篇章中,但书总是变得更好!

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

说到变化,全世界都感到恐慌。然而,我们在哪里看不到变化?

My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.

我的坐骑是我的朋友。我的狗是我的朋友。

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

我读书,如同妇人怀孕。