My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

  • -- Raymond Carver 雷蒙德·卡弗

由于我所处的环境无法减轻我的责任,而且总是让我分心,所以我不得不采用短篇小说的形式。

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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

灵感的秘诀是:告诉你自己,成千上万的人,不是很聪明,当然也不比我们其他人更聪明,已经掌握了像现在困扰你的问题一样困难的问题。

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

我认为写作最难的部分是修改。我的意思是这样的:小说家必须先创作出一块大理石,然后再把它凿开,才能找到大理石中的人物。

Being single doesn't mean you're weak. It means that you're strong enough to wait for what you deserve.

单身并不意味着你软弱。这意味着你足够坚强去等待你应得的。

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

我从来没有写过一本书。这有点像听写。我有话要说。