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To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.
想好一个故事的结局，然后倒着写，就像只用一只手绑鞋带。
— Donald McKay 唐纳德·麦凯
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
用任何一种艺术创造自己的世界都需要勇气。
Georgia O'Keeffe
乔治亚·奥基夫
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
音乐是进入更高层次的知识世界的一种无形的入口，这种知识世界理解人类，但人类无法理解。
Ludwig van Beethoven
路德维希范贝多芬
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
一个人的作品不过是一次缓慢的跋涉，通过艺术的弯路，重新发现那两三个伟大而简单的形象，在他们面前，他的心第一次打开了。
Albert Camus
阿尔伯特·加缪
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
如果你不准备行动，最好保持沉默，甚至不去思考。
Annie Besant
安妮·贝赞特
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
写短篇小说是一种乐趣，当你完成某些事情时，会有一种奇妙的成就感。
Tobias Wolff
托比亚斯·沃尔夫
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
诗歌是它自己的媒介;这和写散文很不一样。诗歌可以以意象的方式说话，它有独特的捕捉环境的方式。
Story Musgrave
斯多里·马斯格雷夫