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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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

写歌是因为你很沮丧,你需要用某种方式来交流,这对我来说不是真的。

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

从我拿起你的书直到我把它放下,我笑得前仰后合。有一天我打算读它。

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

书籍的设计是由作者的思想控制和塑造的现实模式。

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

人们似乎从未意识到,做正确的事并不能保证不遭遇不幸。

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

我的目标是以最好最简单的方式把我看到的和感觉到的写在纸上。

All great peoples are conservative.

所有伟大的民族都是保守的。