The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

  • -- Ethel Wilson 埃塞尔·威尔逊

写作是世界上四五件最隐私的事情之一。

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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

英语的用法有时不仅仅是品味、判断和教育——有时纯粹是运气,就像过马路一样。

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

每一个作家,无论多么谦虚,都把一种最令人发指的虚荣心像疯子一样锁在他胸间的软垫里。