Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

  • -- Katherine Mansfield 凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德

回首往事,我想我一直在写作。那也是胡扯。但写胡言乱语或任何事,任何事,总比什么都不写要好得多。

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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

写作是找到某种节奏的问题。我把它比作爵士乐的节奏。大多数时候,生活是由三个字有节奏地发展而成的。如果一个人告诉自己生活就是这样,他就不会觉得那么武断。

If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect.

如果我们被劝诫演奏简单优美的旋律,而不是有错误的困难旋律,那么写作也应该如此;简单的话效果更大。

If you do writing, people will store your gigawords.

如果你写作,人们会储存你的十亿字。

We need writers who fear nothing.

我们需要无所畏惧的作家。