Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  • -- Flannery O'Connor 奥康纳

无论我走到哪里,都会有人问我,我是否认为大学扼杀了作家。我的观点是,他们没有扼杀足够多的。有许多畅销书本可以被一个好老师阻止。

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Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

作家不凭经验写作,尽管许多人不愿承认他们没有经验。如果你凭经验写作,你可能会得到一本书,也许三首诗。作家从同理心出发写作。

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

人若不作愚妄人,就永远找不到智慧。唉,作家在公众面前必须是傻瓜,而其他人可以掩盖自己的踪迹。

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

为了写你想写的书,最终你必须成为你想成为的那个人。

I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them.

我想提醒你,你不允许我运送船只,因为我曾撞坏过它们。

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

我没有发现曲线;我只是发现了它们。

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

艺术是情感在行动中的溢出。