It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  • -- Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚伍尔夫

艺术家的天性就是过分在意别人对他的评价。文学作品中到处都是一些人的残迹,他们对他人的观点有着超越理性的看法。

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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

每个读者都会发现自己。作者的作品仅仅是一种光学仪器,它使读者能够辨别出如果没有这本书,他可能永远不会在自己身上看到的东西。

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

现代艺术家是在与空间和时间打交道,是在表达自己的情感,而不是在做插画。

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

你所要做的就是把一个词接一个词地写下来,记住当作家的感觉有多棒。

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

伟大的艺术家总是在他的时代之前或之后。