Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

写作就像一项身体接触的运动,就像足球。你可能会受伤,但你很享受。

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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解,只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍,却无话可说。

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

我相信,伤害他的不是他在过去几个月旅行的次数,而是他所说的话以及他说话的方式。

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

如果我能在五分钟内把故事从头到尾讲完,我就准备开始写了。在这五分钟里,它是一个常数。

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

痛苦就是痛苦,伤害就是伤害,恐惧就是恐惧,愤怒就是愤怒,它没有颜色。