Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

只有具有邪恶意识的作家才能使善具有可读性。

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

短篇小说集通常被认为是可怕的熟料;对这位想要展示自己年轻时的战利品和鳟鱼蝇的年长作家来说,这是一种强制性的礼貌。

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

我喜欢写作是因为它给你一种神一般的力量。

Common sense needs to be more common.

常识需要变得更加普遍。