There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

  • -- William Gaddis 威廉·加迪斯

没有什么比一个作家站在观众面前读他的作品更令人苦恼或厌倦的了。

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The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

这样做的好处是,在花大量时间写初稿之前,你就能发现故事的缺陷,而且你几乎不可能在一个困难的章节卡住,因为你已经做了很多工作来克服这些障碍。

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.

我认为在写作和表演上都有很多过度的解释。人们不需要被击中头部。

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

没有比读书更便宜的娱乐,也没有比读书更持久的乐趣。

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

仅仅因为它是虚构的并不意味着它不真实。