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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

如果一个作家不得不抢劫他的母亲，他不会犹豫:“希腊瓮上的颂歌”比任何数量的老妇人都值钱。

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

无论我走到哪里，都会有人问我，我是否认为大学扼杀了作家。我的观点是，他们没有扼杀足够多的。有许多畅销书本可以被一个好老师阻止。

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The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

写广告的奥秘主要在于简明扼要地说出人们想要说的话，就像写在信里或告诉熟人一样。

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Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

对我来说，小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时，这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。

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Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

写作不仅仅是一种天赋。这是一场斗争，祝福那些坚持到底的人。

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