The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  • -- Omar Khayyám 奥马尔·哈伊姆

移动的手指写字,写字的人继续写。你的全部虔诚和你的全部智慧,也不能抵消它的一半。

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When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

当我坐下来写作时,我感觉自己就像一个写自己的极客。然后我醒悟过来,就因为我现在的样子,我不能停止说话,部分原因是,我说的任何话都会让我想起曾经发生在我身上的事情,我总是打断别人,谈论我自己。

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

对于一个好的作家来说,最重要的礼物就是一个内置的防震狗屎探测器。这是作家的雷达,所有伟大的作家都有。