Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

有些编辑是失败的作家,但大多数作家也是。

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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

我相信我的直觉能找到主题,我凭直觉写作。我有一个想法,当我开始,我有一个形状;但只有在几年之后,我才能完全理解我所写的东西。

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

不要试着想象大量的观众。没有这样的读者——每个读者都是不同的人。

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.

我已经写了一个多星期了。我发现它清洁、清爽;这对我有好处。

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

一部小说必须特别好,才能和一般的猫活得一样长。