The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

  • -- Fred Saberhagen 弗雷德·萨卜哈根

对于任何类型的小说,这个建议都是一样的。继续写信,继续寄东西,不是寄给朋友和亲戚,而是寄给那些有能力买东西的人。可以添加许多额外的、有用的技巧,但这是基本的。

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In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

在生活中,重要的不是你知道什么,而是你认识谁。有些人想买球队,如果他们买了,我就能当教练,因为他们想让我当教练。但是有团队的人会雇佣他们的朋友。

While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

尽管反驳指责并让你的论点广为流传是有用的,但你必须明白,只要人们的情绪倾向于反对你,论点和证据就不会对他们产生什么影响。

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

对历史学家和其他人来说,能够看到不同现象的最常见的形式是很有用的,无论是语音的、形态的还是其他的,以及语言如何生存、继续和随着时间的推移而变化。

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

你以为你一直在看东西,但你不是在看东西,你是在看你的大脑通过光和颜色在解释什么。谁知道其他人看到了什么?

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

这些文章都是非常自我主义和自我中心的,我完全意识到这一点。对我来说,写书很有趣,我基本上只写自己觉得有趣的东西。

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

我根据他们的美貌选择朋友,根据他们的人品选择熟人,根据他们的智慧选择敌人。一个人在选择敌人时再谨慎也不为过。