Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  • -- Iris Shun Ru Chang 虹膜顺如常

作为一名作家,你的首要职责是为取悦自己而写作。你对任何人都没有义务。

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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

我们对父母的感激之情是向前的,而不是向后的。我们欠父母的是孩子们给我们的账单。

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

对于你天生的作家来说,没有什么比意识到他找到了正确的词更能治愈你了。

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.

你不可能成为一个伟大的作家,在一个商店里的文字出售在十和二十。

It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.

确保我们有一个值得为之奋斗的和平是我们的责任。