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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 ↗The first draft of anything is shit.
任何东西的初稿都是垃圾。
Ernest Hemingway
欧内斯特·海明威
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
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
愤世嫉俗者只是受挫的浪漫主义者。
William Goldman
威廉姆·高德曼
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
作家必须教育自己，最卑鄙的事情莫过于害怕。
William Faulkner
威廉·福克纳
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西，因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候，它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
Stephen King
斯蒂芬·金
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
很长一段时间以来，我一直试图尽我所能写出最好的作品。有时候我运气好，写得比我能写的更好。
Ernest Hemingway
欧内斯特·海明威