The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

  • -- Richard Harding Davis 理查德·哈丁·戴维斯

好的写作的秘诀是用一种新的方式说一件旧的事情或者用一种旧的方式说一件新的事情。

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The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

这样做的好处是,在花大量时间写初稿之前,你就能发现故事的缺陷,而且你几乎不可能在一个困难的章节卡住,因为你已经做了很多工作来克服这些障碍。

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

当我听到这个消息时,我意识到时间过得真快,每个人都在自己的旅途中,他们总是令人难以置信,他们从不去你认为他们会带你去的地方,坦白地说,这也让我觉得自己有点老了。

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

唯一有点棘手的是,有时人们会认为,如果这是一首新歌,它就反映了你现在的感受或经历。

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

我最喜欢的写作形式是十四行诗或十四行诗式,你知道,有三节或两节组成结束语。

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

当你变老的时候,很难分辨什么是记忆,什么是你在脑海中创造的记忆,你知道吗?

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

我承受不起新的敌人。