No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it.

  • -- Karl Popper 波普尔

没有一本书是写不完的。当我们在做这件事的时候,我们学到了足够的东西,当我们离开它的时候,我们会发现它不够成熟。

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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

很多人想要写作;他们不想写作。换句话说,他们希望看到自己的名字出现在一本书的封面上,而他们微笑的照片出现在书的背面。但这是工作结束时的情况,而不是刚开始的时候。

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

要知道你最终会把一切都抛诸脑后;写作要求你这样做。

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

书并不能提供真正的逃避,但它们可以让你的大脑停止自我折磨。

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

我很高兴一个人坐在餐桌旁写剧本。