I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

  • -- Charles Darwin 查尔斯·达尔文

最近我试着读莎士比亚的作品,发现它枯燥得令人难以忍受,使我作呕。

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If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

如果一个人认真对待他的写作,他一定要把它写好。但是他怎么能写得好,直到他学会看他写得不好。他在写作上的进步,以及对糟糕作品的认知,必然会以同样的速度展开。

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

我认为,孩子们常常被要求在有话要说之前就开始写作。教他们用自我压抑的方式思考、阅读和交谈,他们会写作,因为他们无法控制自己。