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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
写作的孤独也是相当可怕的。这是非常接近疯狂，一个人只是消失了一天，失去了联系。
— Nadine Gordimer 纳丁·戈迪默
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更多好句 ↗My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
如果说我的父亲有什么不同的话，那就是他首先是一个说话算数的人。他爱的故事;确切地说，他不是为故事而活，但我认为他是通过故事而活的。我想，和许多作家一样，他喜欢讲述自己经历过的事情的故事，就像他喜欢亲身经历一样多，甚至更多。
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
小亨利·路易斯·盖茨
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
我已经告诉过几位作家这一点，并且，再一次，我回到它，但如果你想让上帝微笑，告诉他你的计划。
Vin Scully
斯科林
Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.
作家们会把剧本交给我，如果我非常喜欢一个剧本，并把它交给杂志编辑，我就知道这个故事是好是坏。
Julius Schwartz
编辑茱历亚书华兹
There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.
世界上有两种作家，一种伟大的作家能给你真理，另一种不伟大的作家只能给你自己。
Clifton Fadiman
克利夫顿·费迪曼
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
原创作家不是谁也模仿不了的人，而是谁也模仿不了的人。
François-René de Chateaubriand
弗朗索瓦仁德城堡
Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
作为作家，我们的工作就是做好我们的工作。
David Mamet
大卫·马梅