把这一句，留给此刻的你
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
任何作家绝对诚实地取悦自己，几乎肯定会取悦他人。
— Marianne Moore 穆尔
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
一个人要想成为伟大的好人，就必须有强烈而全面的想象;他必须把自己放在别人和许多其他人的位置上;人类的痛苦和快乐必须成为人类自己的。
Percy Bysshe Shelley
珀西·比西·雪莱
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
我有时认为，这是因为他们太不善于口头表达自己，所以作家一开始就拿起笔和纸。
Gore Vidal
戈尔·维达尔
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
艺术家是被恶魔驱使的动物。他不知道他们为什么选择他，而且他通常太忙了，不知道为什么。
William Faulkner
威廉·福克纳
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意，让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉，在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。
Eudora Welty
韦尔蒂
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
Vladimir Nabokov
弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
对我来说，小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时，这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。
Cory Doctorow
科利·多克托罗