Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

  • -- William Howard Taft 威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱

不要为了别人能理解你而写作,要为了别人不会误解你而写作。

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If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

如果我有一个预先设定好的情节,我为什么要经历写小说的痛苦呢?小说至少对我来说是一种探索和发现。

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

一个人不仅希望在写作时被理解;一个人当然不希望被人理解。

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

我说的每一句话都不能被理解为肯定,而应该被理解为疑问。

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

但当我指挥时,我被附身了,一种我从未完全理解的附身。