Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

  • -- J. P. Donleavy 邓利维

写作是把一个人最糟糕的时刻变成金钱。

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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

至于我的下一本书,我要克制自己不去写它,直到它迫近我的心头:它在我的脑海里变得沉重起来,像一个成熟的梨,挂饰,妊娠期,要求被剪掉,否则它就会掉下来。

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

有才能的人对语言的处理和使用赋予语言价值,与其说是通过创新,不如说是通过提供更有活力和更多样化的服务,通过拉伸和弯曲语言。