You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

  • -- Neil Gaiman 尼尔·盖曼

你从白日梦中得到灵感。你从无聊中获得灵感。你总是有想法。作家和其他人之间唯一的区别就是我们在写作的时候会注意到。

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Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

当我走近书本,独自一人消磨时间时,我不得不去想一些如果我正忙于和一个哥哥和一个姐姐嬉闹,我永远也不会去想的事情。

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

一个伟大的作家创造了他自己的世界,他的读者为生活在其中而感到自豪。一个不那么优秀的作家可能会暂时吸引他们,但很快他就会看到他们逐渐退出。

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

我想说的是,监狱制度对一个作家来说相当不错,因为你有足够的时间写作。

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

作家从来没有假期。对于一个作家来说,生活要么是写作,要么是思考写作。