I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...

  • -- Phil Dusenberry 菲尔·杜森伯里

我一直认为写广告是第二赚钱的写作形式。首先,当然是赎金便条……

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

清晰语言的最大敌人是不真诚。当一个人的真实目标和他宣称的目标之间存在差距时,他就会本能地转向冗长的词语和陈腐的习语,就像墨鱼喷出墨汁一样。

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

提供免费的法律咨询并不是不专业的,但是广告说第一次拜访是免费的,这有点像狐狸告诉小鸡,他不会咬它们,直到它们进入鸡舍的门槛。

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

两个小时的小说写作使这位作家精疲力竭。在那两个小时里,他跟完全不同的人在一个不同的地方。

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

广告本质上是说服,而说服恰好不是一门科学,而是一门艺术。

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

我的小说指出世界完全由例外组成。

How can you stop writing?

你怎么能停止写作?