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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Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

在同一头脑中同时产生的或立即产生的思想相互复制,并且更容易地沿着最初产生的思想的方向进行复制,而且确定地与它们在一起的频率成正比。

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

心理分析。几乎跑了三次——几乎。然后我决定我的特别之处可能就是我成功的原因。我看到过一些非常有天赋的演员进入了分析领域,但却迷失了方向。

Beware: a promotion is always harder on your character than a demotion. Success is seductive.

注意:升职总是比降职更难。成功是诱人的。

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

当今成功领导的关键是影响力,而不是权威。