There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

作家有三个困难:写任何值得出版的东西,找到诚实的人出版它,让明智的人读它。

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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.

我们的社会,就像腐朽的罗马一样,已经变成了一个娱乐社会,作家主要是宫廷弄臣中的一员。

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

如果我的医生告诉我只有六分钟的生命,我不会沉思。我会打字快一点。