You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

  • -- Carlisle Floyd 卡莱尔·弗洛伊德

你不可能预测什么会持续多久。但是,一旦你尝试写作多年,你就注定要失败。

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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

写作的灵感?也许与其说是灵感,不如说是写作的需要。当我有一段时间没写东西的时候,我会感到发痒、内疚和不满。我有了一些想法,需要把它们写下来。

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解,只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍,却无话可说。

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

怀旧总是命中注定的。