I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

  • -- Maxwell Perkins 麦克斯威尔·柏金斯

我相信作者……应该永远是最后的裁判。我一直坚持这一立场,有时看到书因此受到伤害,但至少同样经常得到帮助。这本书是作者的。

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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。

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

虚构是谎言里的真相。