What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

不劳而获地写出来的东西,读起来通常没有乐趣。

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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

我认为写文学作品应该给人带来乐趣。还应该讲些什么呢?它不是核物理。它必须给人带来快乐,否则就一文不值。

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

一开始我很挣扎。我说我要写下真相,上帝保佑我。我想我是。我发现我不能。没有人能写出绝对的真理。

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

来吧,就我而言,我只有喝得酩酊大醉,邋里邋遢,才能获得那种光荣的男子汉气概的乐趣。

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

作家的默默无闻通常与他的无能成正比。