The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

  • -- George Stephen 乔治·斯蒂芬

这样做的好处是,在花大量时间写初稿之前,你就能发现故事的缺陷,而且你几乎不可能在一个困难的章节卡住,因为你已经做了很多工作来克服这些障碍。

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I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him, ... This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.

我数不清在平常的日子里有多少次我需要告诉他一些事情,……这种冲动并没有随着他的死亡而结束。最后的结果是有可能作出反应。

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

当你对一个故事有一个想法时,你希望这些角色能够接触到尽可能多的人。我想你通常认为散文是一种方式。它符合我们的时代和文化。

And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.

我应该抓住她,吻她,她应该有反应。事情是这样的,朱莉当时非常紧张,因为她出色地完成了这个不可思议的角色。

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life.

如果你继续讲同样悲伤的小故事,你将继续过同样悲伤的小生活。

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

大。有一个词我真的很讨厌。这是一个假的。每次听到它我都想吐。

The greatest writers have persistence.

最伟大的作家都有毅力。