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 word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

发生在我身上的事很奇怪;我的意思是在我十岁之前就这样蹦出来了。

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

平庸的人认为自己写得很好;一个好的头脑认为它的写作是合理的。

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

策略就是用你所拥有的做你能做的。