Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

  • -- Margaret Jean Langstaff 玛格丽特·让·兰斯塔夫

谦虚是想写好文章的作家的基本品质。

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Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with "I've got to get another play.

写作是我逃离这个拥挤的世界的一种方式。我喜欢一个人呆在房间里。这几乎是一种冥想的形式——一种对我自己生活的调查。这和“我得再演一个剧本”无关。

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。