When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

  • -- Elizabeth Moon 伊丽莎白·穆恩

刚开始的时候,我的短篇小说写得不好,因为我一直想写书。

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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

写作的灵感?也许与其说是灵感,不如说是写作的需要。当我有一段时间没写东西的时候,我会感到发痒、内疚和不满。我有了一些想法,需要把它们写下来。

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

我没有写作,因为在部队里,我学了采矿工程的所有课程,你知道,他们毕业时是一名采矿工程师,有点文盲的感觉。

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

找到那些从读书中获得巨大乐趣的人是一种越来越不寻常的经历,所以作家们非常想被倾听。

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

我只是一个人,但我就是一个人。我不能做所有的事,但我能做一些事。我不会让我不能做的事妨碍我能做的事。

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

冰立方是我的一部分,我给公众。

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

有些书让我们自由,有些书让我们自由。