When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

当一个作家还活着的时候,我们通过他最差的作品来评价他的力量;当他死后,我们用他最好的方式来评价他。

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A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.

一个作家,仅此而已:一个人在一个房间里用英语交谈,试图获得正确的人类情感。

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

人之所以不能理解语言,是因为语言本身不能理解;不想明白。

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

新颖的草稿就像生面团;你得把它打烂才能让它上升。

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。