Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  • -- Alice Walker 爱丽丝·沃克

把我从那些说他们的生活方式不重要的作家那里解救出来。我不确定一个坏人能写一本好书,如果艺术不能让我们变得更好,那么它到底是为了什么。

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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

你可以这样做:你坐在键盘前,一个字一个字地写下来,直到写好为止。就是那么简单,那么难。

Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

写作,如果管理得当(你可以肯定的是,我认为我的管理得当),只是交谈的另一个名字。

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

人的内心有千万个想法,只有拿起笔才能知道。

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

请不要轻视翻译。他是人类文明的邮递员。