Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

  • -- Truman Capote 杜鲁门·卡波特

写作有透视法、明暗法,就像绘画或音乐一样。如果你生下来就知道这些,那很好。如果没有,学习他们。然后根据自己的需要重新排列规则。

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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

断裂波和它收缩时的肌肉遵循同样的规律。精致的线条汇集了身体的全部力量,在一个大胆的平衡。难道我的灵魂会遇到如此严峻的曲线,在它形成的道路上行进吗?

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。

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

小说的内容加起来,暗示着“逻辑一致性”,或者某种解释,肯定是二流小说;因为生命的真理是神秘的。

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

为什么人们总是问作家他们为什么停下来?我相信每个人都能在抽屉里找到几首珍贵的诗。