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

  • -- Catherine Drinker Bowen 包恩

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。

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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的,因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达,去触及,去表达我们内心的某种东西,去理解他人。

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

没有死亡这回事。自然界中没有死亡。从每一个腐朽的残垣中,都有某种形式的生命出现。这样,他的生命在不知不觉中就被夺去了。

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

创造性的作家不仅是生活的受害者,也是生活的使用者;在他的作品中,他能够控制自我表现,而事实上,他的自我表现是受上千次事故的摆布。

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

没有什么比坐下来和你的奶牛聊天更好的了。