If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

  • -- Stephen King 斯蒂芬金

如果你想成为一名作家,你首先必须做两件事:大量阅读和大量写作。据我所知,这两件事是无法回避的,没有捷径可走。

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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

我不会打桥牌。我不打网球。人们学到的所有东西,我都很钦佩,但似乎没有时间去做。但有时间做的是往窗外看。

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

我在个人生活中确实给自己放了个假,但我认为在工作中,如果你不强迫自己,你会感到无聊,想做别的事情。

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

对于你天生的作家来说,没有什么比意识到他找到了正确的词更能治愈你了。

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

我们必须谦虚地承认,发明并不在于从虚无中创造,而在于从混沌中创造。

It's like half of me really wants to be with him and the other half just  wants to be over him.

就好像我有一半真的想和他在一起,另一半只是想和他分手。

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

布鲁克林是我的作家的隐居地。