I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

  • -- James Edwin Gunn 詹姆斯·埃德温·冈恩

我不知道成功写作的秘诀是什么,但重要的一步是超越模仿,发现你能写出别人无法写出的东西——也就是说,找出你是谁,然后用合适的叙述和风格来写。

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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

我意识到有一种期待,作家们在这个阶段不可避免地会踌躇不前,他们无法实现自己第一本书成功的承诺,下一本书永远不会像前一本书那样让人满意。它只是增加了我被挑战的感觉。

My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to have more international success.

我的目标是吸引尽可能多的人。我不打算离开这个国家,但我确实想在国际上获得更多的成功。

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

很多成功的科技公司最终进入的市场都与他们刚起步时略有不同。

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

做一个成功的父亲…有一个绝对的规则,当你有一个孩子的时候,头两年不要看它。