You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you, there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse?

  • -- Roy Campbell 罗伊·坎贝尔

你赞扬他们在写作上的坚定克制——我当然同意你的看法:他们用的是马嚼子和马路边石,不错,可那匹该死的马呢?

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Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

作家不凭经验写作,尽管许多人不愿承认他们没有经验。如果你凭经验写作,你可能会得到一本书,也许三首诗。作家从同理心出发写作。

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

任何一个十五岁就想成为作家的人都知道写几本小说。