I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

  • -- Brian Selznick 布赖恩·塞尔兹尼克

我可以用铅笔画出运动的物体,但如果我在写作,我就会纠结于如何去写。那个男孩跑过走廊?男孩飞快地跑下走廊。男孩跑下大理石走廊?我为这些话而苦恼。所以我的编辑工作非常努力。我很幸运有她。

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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

成为作家的秘诀是你必须写作。仅仅考虑写作、研究文学或作为一名作家规划未来的生活是不够的。你真的必须把自己锁起来,一个人,然后开始工作。

It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

你在挣钱之前为之奋斗和奋斗的东西才是最有价值的。

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

说说你自己——你的奋斗,你的梦想,你的电话号码。

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

来,让我们冷静下来:没有一个不能克制的人曾经是作家。