It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

  • -- Don DeLillo 唐·德里罗

我的观点是,每本书都有自己的结构和长度。我已经写了三四本薄薄的书。也许下一部小说会很成功,但我不知道。

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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

坐下来,把你脑子里想的都写下来,然后你就成了作家。但是,一个作家能够毫无怜悯地判断自己作品的价值,并摧毁其中的大部分。

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

我最好的朋友会给我一本我没读过的书。

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

对美的感知是一种道德测试。

You are what you write.

你写的就是你自己。