Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

  • -- Eudora Welty 韦尔蒂

写故事或小说是在经历中发现顺序的一种方式,是在作者自己的生活中偶然发现因果关系的一种方式。

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I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

一段时间以来,我一直在为我的员工寻找女性作家,我的员工中有三名女性和三名男性,所以男女比例相当。我不知道为什么。一段时间以来都是一样的。女喜剧演员很难脱颖而出。这是奇怪的。这是一个耻辱。

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

现实生活和故事的区别在于生活有意义,而故事必须有意义。前者并不总是显而易见的,而后者总是必须在结束之前显现出来。

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

书页仍然是空白的,但有一种神奇的感觉,文字就在那里,用看不见的墨水写着,大声疾呼着要显现出来。

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

每个作家都是上一代人的作家。