I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

  • -- Lynn Abbey 李恩·阿贝

我首先是个作家,其次是个编辑……或者是第三,甚至第四。成功的编辑需要一套非常具体的技能,我并不声称我掌握了所有这些技能。

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Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

设计师需要标新立异,因为设计一个成功的对象的最好方法是假装它从未存在过,或者人们将能够对它有一个新的行为。

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

底线:如果你对学习别人是如何成功的表现出真正的兴趣,你就能打开一个充满机遇的世界。

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

编辑是把小麦从糠秕中分离出来,然后再把糠秕打印出来的人。

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

穷人比富人更难成功。

I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.

我需要做些什么,我知道我能成功。

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

凡你所吩咐的,总要遵行。

A good novel editor is invisible.

好的小说编辑是看不见的。