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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
我要么当作家,要么当流浪汉。
— Carl Sandburg 卡尔·桑德伯格
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更多好句 ↗How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
我怎么知道我在想什么,直到我看到我所说的?
E. M. Forster
E·M·福斯特
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
读一千本书,你的话就会像河流一样流淌。
Lisa See
邝丽莎
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
我几乎总是鼓励人们用第一人称写作。写作是一种自我的行为,你不妨承认这一点。
William Knowlton Zinsser
威廉·诺尔顿·津瑟
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
写小说有三条规则。不幸的是,没有人知道它们是什么。
W. Somerset Maugham
威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
在被众多出版商拒绝后,他决定为子孙后代写作。
George Ade
乔治·艾迪
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯,把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
Caroline Gordon
卡罗琳·戈登