How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

-- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

当你还没有站起来生活的时候，坐下来写作是多么的徒劳。

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Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

我们的作家满是陈词滥调，就像旧谷仓里满是蝙蝠一样。这显然没有什么规则，除非你怀疑的任何陈词滥调毫无疑问是一个，最好删除。

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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

我不在乎你是谁。当你坐下来写剧本的第一页时，在你的脑海里，你也在写你的奥斯卡获奖感言。

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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

如果你在写小说，你会在一个房间里呆上三四年。外面没有什么东西进来。

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Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

脚注，小狗在文字后面狂吠。

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