I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

  • -- Chaim Potok 小说家波图克

我认为写作最难的部分是修改。我的意思是这样的:小说家必须先创作出一块大理石,然后再把它凿开,才能找到大理石中的人物。

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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

故事是作者写给自己的一封信,告诉自己一些他无法发现的事情。

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

以身作则胜于言传身教。人们会看我一周中的六天,看我在第七天是什么意思。

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

我想写一首最美的诗,但那是不可能的;世界已经书写了自己。

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

我的意思是,我没有不开心,但是我还有很多想做的。