A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

一个完成的故事可以使一个人在光明和文学意义上永生;但一个未完成的故事暗示着另一种不朽,更本质,也更奇怪。

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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

当然,这就是为什么你想成为一名作家——因为你有这样做的自由,但一旦你有了自由,你也有义务去做。

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

哭一场,自有它的道理。但是你迟早要停下来,然后你仍然要决定做什么。

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

读书的人一生不止一次,但这意味着他们也不止一次地死去。

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

一旦你开始在视觉上创作一个角色,你就有麻烦了。