A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

  • -- Gerard de Marigny 杰拉德·德·马里尼

作家失败,不是因为读者没有被感动;但是,作为一个读者,当作者没有被感动的时候。

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A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

电脑不能代替判断,就像铅笔不能代替识字一样。但是不用铅笔写作并没有什么特别的优势。

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

我写场景——通常是很长的场景——主要是因为我仍然被引诱写六行,其中一行半就可以了。