I never listen to music when I write.

  • -- Augusten Burroughs 奥古斯丁·巴勒斯

我写作时从不听音乐。

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I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

我在大学里修了两门小说写作课程,主修文学。我觉得我有一种诀窍,尽管我不会把它称为天赋。但我很害怕。我觉得想写作是一件幼稚的事情,我最终会忘记它。

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

我没有上过高中。我想,当你学会了读、写、算、自己冲马桶之后,你就不需要再上学了。你需要到水里去游泳。

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

当你中风时,你必须慢慢地说才能被理解,我发现当我慢慢地说时,人们会倾听。他们认为我会说一些重要的话!

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

语言的音乐对我来说变得极其重要,而且显而易见。在我七岁的时候,我就开始写作了。我是一个诗人。

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

我听过很多歌手的歌,因为我发现乐句是演奏中最重要的元素之一。

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

我从来就不理解那些夸大音乐技巧的人。