Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

  • -- Elizabeth George 伊丽莎白·乔治

很多人想要写作;他们不想写作。换句话说,他们希望看到自己的名字出现在一本书的封面上,而他们微笑的照片出现在书的背面。但这是工作结束时的情况,而不是刚开始的时候。

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I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

就在他去世的那天,我拾起了那封信。这是我能找到的唯一的安慰。

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

我是一个国家安全自由主义者,我告诉人们这些,因为这听起来很荒谬。

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

文学学者不能通过书店,正如酒鬼不能通过酒吧一样。

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

现在我们有一个统治阶级,他们有一种法律,而人民有另一种法律。

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

在一个大工作室的合同上写作,你会得到最好的。

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

一本书永远写不完;这是放弃了。