When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

写小说的时候,作者应该创造活生生的人;人们不要字符。一个人物是一幅漫画。

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Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

反驳你内心的批评者。训练自己识别并写下批判性的想法。了解为什么这些想法是不真实的,并练习和他们交谈和写作。

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

让我愤怒的不仅仅是因为我们在接受采访,还因为我不喜欢作家把你的话放在其他地方,放在他们自己关于你的文章的错误语境中。

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

坐下来,把你脑子里想的都写下来,然后你就成了作家。但是,一个作家能够毫无怜悯地判断自己作品的价值,并摧毁其中的大部分。

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

这是对一个绅士的最后考验:他对那些对他毫无价值的人的尊重。

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

我养成了关着门写小说的习惯,或者在叔叔家的餐桌上写小说。

Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

眼泪有更好的品格独自哭。同情有时比狗更像狼。

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

写作是一种可怕的劳动,但不像懒惰那么可怕。

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

只有在小说中,所有的东西都得到充分的发挥。